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William Boyd (writer)
Release Date:
17 September 1999 (UK)
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It is a place 8ft wide, 600 miles long, man-made and God-forsaken.
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2 nominations
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Well-intentioned but inept
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Paul Nicholls | ... | Pte. Billy Macfarlane | |
| Daniel Craig | ... | Sgt. Telford Winter | |
| Julian Rhind-Tutt | ... | 2nd Lt. Ellis Harte | |
| Danny Dyer | ... | Lance Cpl. Victor Dell | |
| James D'Arcy | ... | Pte. Colin Daventry | |
| Tam Williams | ... | Pte. Eddie Macfarlane | |
| Anthony Strachan | ... | Pte. Horace Beckwith | |
| Michael Moreland | ... | Pte. George Hogg | |
| Adrian Lukis | ... | Lt. Col. Villiers | |
| Ciarán McMenamin | ... | Pte. Charlie Ambrose | |
| Cillian Murphy | ... | Rag Rookwood | |
| John Higgins | ... | Pte. Cornwallis | |
| Ben Whishaw | ... | Pte. James Deamis | |
| Tim Murphy | ... | Pte. Bone | |
| Danny Nutt | ... | Pte. Dieter Zimmermann |
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La tranchée (France)
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98 min
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In preparation for the film, the director sent to main cast to a replica trench for a night to experience the conditions the British army suffered.
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Revealing mistakes: When Eddie looks out the loophole, no mans land is a clear green field. When the Winter and Beckwith do the raid, Beckwith claims there is a a ton of wire left. During the final attack, there is no wire. Also, due to the weeks of bombing it is likely that the ground would be a bit rough and muddy.
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It's heart might be in the right place, but this tepid misfire looks like a bad TV schools production in every way. The 'exteriors' are obviously interior studio sets, and not very convincing ones. It's so badly lit that when the film finally goes outdoors to rip off the end of Gallipoli (which it does incredibly badly, like everything else) the change of film stock is so jarring it hurts.
The characters are childish stereotypes talking in unbelievable clichés and the film is frequently just plain wrong about details and attitudes of the average WW1 Tommy: politically correct, maybe, but historically it's a travesty (no Mr Boyd, officers DID go over the top: the highest percentage of casualties was officers, and even many generals died in battle).
But more than being badly directed, looking cheap, getting its facts wrong and going with every cliché Boyd can find, it's biggest sin is that it's just so bloody boring. Bad on every level.
WW1 was a terrible tragedy, and those who died in it deserve better than this terrible, terrible film.