Wonderful character development!

Better than most people think

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

This was good, really good. The cast was excellent and the story bold, spooky and kept you wondering what the hell was going on. In fact, by the end *SPOILER ALERT* you figure out these dudes are in a kind of hell, commonly known as purgatory. I love purgatory stories. The movie was nicely paced with enough twists to keep you on the edge of your seat and the setting with the fog and mud and the guy peering through the caked-on mud was dramatic. I really liked the way it ended too - because you know the scary is not over yet. A nice little find on Netflix. Also, Jamie Bell is an excellent actor - even back then because he was seriously young. Overall, a very enjoyable film.

i saw the movie preview and i thought it was going to be bad movie but i was wrong the movie had a really good story line, the spacial effects were pretty great, and acting overall was great, one thing that didn't go with the movie was that the music it was not suspenseful or scary which was bad because if they were try to get to a point to scare who ever watching the it would be right and if you like suspenseful movies you would want to see this are movie and if you are a fan of horror movies like many of us are you would want to see this movie and over i would give this movie a had 8 out of 10 and if you have any movies that you think i should watch message me and i will watch and write review about itthank for reading

This film is very well done from the point of view of setting the scene. This squad of English soldiers are engaged in the awful trench warfare of WW1. They go over the top and are apparently mowed down by machine gun fire and exploding shells. Next we see them trudging over No Man's Land in the fog. At this point it's pretty certain that they're dead and in some kind of hell, or purgatory. Though masterful in setting the scene, the mythic underpinnings of the story are confused or non-existent. They come to a German trench which is full of corpses and a few live Germans. They kill the survivors except one, whom they imprison in an ammunition locker. But the trench itself seems to be attacking them. One by one they are being killed in horrible ways. Some by their buddies and some strangled by barbed wire that emerges from the mud. War is hell, but this is hell upon hell. The horror is unrelenting.Now war in the trenches is about as horrible as it gets. You really don't need supernatural effects to make it more horrible. Here the movie falls apart. It raises questions it can't answer. Why are these deceased soldiers being put through this additional hell after the hell of trench warfare? They behave as you might suppose any normal young men might under the circumstances, which is to become beasts. They're paranoid, they make bad decisions and they fight with each other. But what do you expect? In the end there is one English 'survivor' of the horror in the German trench. He's the only one who helped the surviving German and protested the madness of his fellows. In the end he's allowed to 'go free' for his humanity. Whatever that means. I suppose that means he can now go to Heaven while the others are condemned to repeat the hellish experience in the German trench for all Eternity. But since these young men have become beasts only because they've been subjected to the extreme dehumanizing experience of war, we can't feel they are really bad guys, they don't deserve this gruesome punishment. Well, maybe one of the guys is a real psychopath, but the others are victims of the horror of war.Ultimately this movie is a depressing downer. There is no payoff. Neither is it an anti-war movie because none of the issues surrounding WWI are brought up. If the movie makers just wanted to make us feel horrified and disgusted they could just have just shown war as it really is, there was no need for the supernatural bit. Horror movies should have some element of fun, or at least a sense of justice. Here there is neither fun nor justice. There is enough horror in the real world, a horror movie should have a point and this has none.

I've seen many bad movies but that one was way worst than getting a tooth plucked out... It was poorly made in so many ways in despise of the trenches being realistic and really well done the realization was bleh and the directing was inexistent I hope. The movie was slow paced, seemed to last for 10 hours and overall uninteresting, most of the ''horror'' scenes seemed like cheap rip offs from some other big horror movies (the barb wire scene (did someone see Silent hill once too many time?))... I had such high expectations for that one and I was deceived on all of them... bad bad bad movie. Please don't tell me I didn't get it I understood the movie and what it was about, the idea was great hence I wanted to see it so bad but the movie wasn't good it could have been a great movie but it is not!