Passchendaele
Sergeant Michael Dunne fights in the 10th Battalion, AKA The "Fighting Tenth" with the 1st Canadian Division and participated in all major Canadian battles of the war, and set the record for highest number of individual bravery awards for a single battle
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- Cast:
- Paul Gross , Caroline Dhavernas , Joe Dinicol , Adam J. Harrington , Gil Bellows , James Kot , Robert Nogier
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It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
This is a load of pretentious overblown rubbish with a ridiculous and totally absurd plot. The characters are caricatures, the direction is leaden. As others have commented- the battle scene at the end is well done - unfortunately you have to put up with the rest - wasting 90 minutes of your life
Passchendaele is a decent World War One film, one of the best out there and there's not too many it has minor flaws but does the job brilliantly. Paul Gross has done a great job acting in and directing this film. Some may be put off by the love story but for me this just reinforces and shows the losses of many people during this time period and era. Passchendaele shows how many people who once lived to together as neighbors are divided by stupid things like family nationality and false loyalty and bad promises of adventure and glory. The love story isn't for everyone but wow many girlfriends and wives lost partners and how many young men never came home to true love or had a chance to live full lives? This film does get you thinking!Of course this is no Band Of Brothers in terms of scale (I know that's World War Two) but Paul Gross has done extremely well acting and directly. I find this film to be a good tribute to his Grandfather and to those who lost something because of World War One.The film is low budget however this doesn't really show to be honest and this is a fitting tribute and good story! With regards to the low budget the battle scenes could have been bigger and better but this is by no means a bad film.The acting and casting is spot on and this film really does show the stupid ill placed passion and faulted logic of young people in this era and, it shows the pressure many had to go through and be forced to fight for freedom not knowing what the loses and costs would be. World War One was a slaughter and waste of millions of lives and the deaths of certain characters and the gruesome way they die shows this war was not the fairy tale adventures many painted it to be at the start. Among all the blood and slaughter there is a story and the film does well to reflect and show not everyone fighting was a murderer or cold blooded killer and many just wanted it to end. We need more World War One films like this to teach young people the truths and to keep history alive so we don't make the same mistakes again.
A collection of hackneyed war movie clichés...Gross' ultimate cash grab. I left the theatre after hurling Coke and popcorn at the screen. God what a disgusting waste of time. The problem with many Canadian films is, they seem to try too hard to emulate Hollywood. Give up! And: Gross..... Stop trying to tell us you have talent! The idea of having a guy dying on a cross of barbed wire. Jeeezus...... pathetic. . What a ludicrous idea! What were you thinking?? The idea of a romance being relevant to a war movie..ridiculous! You should have stuck to a theme more realistic than what you put out...like, showing men and mules knee deep in mud, sleeping in foul trenches for weeks at a time, and enduring meat - headed tactics dictated by senescent British generals who lived in relative luxury 20 miles away from the fighting.
Passchendaele is the biggest pile or fantasy ridden rubbish to have ever spun round in my blue-ray player. I would rather eat a slice of ham that has been festering in one of chunks fat flaps that have my retinas assaulted with this abortion of a film again..This film has produced one of the most comical battle scenes I have ever seen. The main guys young comrade falls into a German trench and was just about to be shot when an artillery shell lands in the trench blowing him and the duck-boards he was lying on out into no mans land...after the smoke clears the young soldier is crucified to the duck boards, facing his comrades, spread out like Jesus....stuck upright in the mud...I half expected to hear someone shout HE'S NOT THE MESSIAH, HE'S A VERY NAUGHTY BOY....however, as I watched the main guy run through no mans land, dodging bullets, cries of COVERING FIRE bellowing out the mouths of his comrades I did not expect what was about to follow...He then, with the help of the Germans who have all stopped firing, takes down the cross and starts dragging it back to his side.. all that was missing was a crown of thorns...I turned the turgid mess off after that...I was tempted to watch for comedy value but my soul had already suffered...How on earth this movie won any type of award is beyond me...Please never buy this film, its terrible, rent it...laugh...then thank the lord that you read my review