for this movie and my recommendation be to read the book . i have not and and do not discount the power which may have be convey by the original author who live the experience . but all credibility which this movie may have have and wash away for me because there be no dirt and no mud and no decay and no rat and no louse and no corpse stink and no depiction of the truly terrible condition in which these people fight and slog and die . all of the soldier kit be unblemished and unstained and unmuddied and look like the producer do not want to risk the expense of get it clean upon it return to the props department . the trench look like they have be build that afternoon . you want to tell an effective story with picture and you have to make the picture right and or the story doesn not get told . go watch all quiet on the western front for the quintessential depiction of world war i .