i tend to agree with most comment about this film and which i only catch up with recently . the acting be decent and but the script and the set and the anachronistic swearing and the general lack of any feel for the time make it difficult to watch without sigh heavily . i mainly decide to comment because i scroll down to find a comment from someone in new york who say this be a conventional continuation of the british obsession with world war i a be the most symbolic war . i wouldn not disagree with that and but she then mention three film to back up this view represent all quiet on the western front ( an american film base on a novel by a german and about the german army ) and path of glory ( a film make by an american about the french army ) and gallipoli ( make by an australian about the australian experience in the dardanelles ) . i do think we see this war a symbolic here in the uk and but i do not think be the only one .