Great Film overall

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

The best war film ever made. Possibly the best film ever made. Outstanding writing. Outstanding acting. Outstanding directorship.I never normally say thing like this, but if you don't appreciate this film you're a moron.

Journey's End is an adaptation of RC Sherriff's play set in the trenches during World War One.A young officer Raleigh (Asa Butterfield) arrives to the trenches straight out of training. Excited with his posting. Raleigh has pulled a few favours through his uncle, an army bigwig to be in the unit of Captain Stanhope (Sam Claffin) who he was at school with and who is going out with Raleigh's sister.Stanhope though is suffering from the strains of command, the chaos around him and death. After a daring but suicidal mission, Stanhope loses his second in command, the stoic Osborne (Paul Bettany) which drives Stanhope further into drink and takes his temper out on Raleigh who now realises that life in the trenches is not a bed of roses.The film takes place in the dugout over the course of six days, with the soldiers under a sense of impending doom. You see a range of other characters, many are anxious, a few are suffering from shell shock, a fewer still trying to keep going with some sort of humour.Director Saul Bettany has tried to open up the play with an action sequence, but it is too many men talking in dimly lit scenes. As 2018 is the 100 year anniversary of the ending of the Great War, this was something just too melancholy, familiar and low budget. It is a journey that we have seen before, the countless waste of young men but this story is told in a lugubrious fashion.

Just got bored with how hard war was for upper and middle class officers. I'm no socialist, but I'm sick and tired of the toll it took on poets and authors. Any film based on their memoires or scribblings can never ever truly capture the horror of WW 1. Many of the lower ranked officers and NCO's deserve acclaim, their losses were proportionally as high or higher than the rank and file. The higher ranks never came to terms with their favoured cavalry was now obsolete, that men can't break through trenches that have well sighted machine guns. They played the final card - attrition, every man was expendable. Awful tactics, but worked eventually.

There are a lot of movies that tackled this theme maybe million times before. And the characters are by no means fresh or new. But it's the very limited time we get through that allowed the characters to flesh out. I cared about every single character in this movie. Of course, the acting has a major role in making the characters very easy to sympathize with. All the actor did a great job and all of them have their powerful moments. Asa Butterfield proved that he is a very good actor and that it's only his role choices that make him very underrated. But it's Sam Claflin who really shines in the role of Captain Stanhope. I liked his performance in My Cousin Rachel, but I think he gave his best performance ever in Journey's End. Using wobbly hand-held cameras was a great decision Saul Dibb made, it makes me feel that the movie shot in a second-person perspective and that makes me relate to the characters even more as I have always felt that I was standing with them in the battle area or as they were just talking. The production design is top notch.Besides the familiarity of the story and the stereotypical characters, which aren't big deal, I think the ending is a bit rushed, it is so effective and moving though.(8/10)