mat-fletcher I like war movies so was particularly looking forward to this ww1 trench warfare epic however it is very, very boring.Essentially the story is centred around a young company commander who has previously been awarded the MC for some act of bravery that we don´t anything about, he spends his days just trying to get through it by drinking and obviously has minor to moderate PTSD.That´s it, nothing else really happens, he gets angry with his younger officers then he is nice to them again and then it is back to drinking and facing his demons.You can safely give this one a miss.

expostfacto-85100 On first accounts you are immediately grabbed between a british war film and the lack of consciousness of American films. The film holds no relevance if it was original theatre form as a trench wouch perfectly suit the "walls closing in" feeling of a filthy rat infested trench.The rats are over looked, here are men preparing for battle and they cannot kill a rat. At there greatest moment of dehumanising the characters are turned inside out, like a mirror they see their inner consciousnesses. Interesting Bettany was going to play Claflin, but the director found Bettany's display of strength for all the men altering the story. Only at the end when Bettany cuts himself shaving and begins parting with his most important items during a routine raid does one see him begin to ravel. His is the archetype of love in the film, as not as just joung Ask Butterfield quickly bonds with him Claflin the unit commander stating death in the eyes breaks down after Bettany dies and lets his teats pour down Ask, his nephew who he has barely said a word too, Bettany has transcended the fact he will died in that muddy disgusting trench, who the Unit Commander, holding onto hos last threads of sanity, still believes in his drunken delusional state he willl survive. Seems mentally unconsciously safe in the bunker, his only 2 moments of "love" remove him from the setting of the war but won't pivotal plot moments. The mood, the atmosphere, the foreboding the dark walls reflecting of a grim reaper all sum up what the Nolan brother's could have served up in Dunkirk, instead of a rubbish American we all hours of our lives on. The gorgeous Ask Butterfield, Trotter, Mason, and weakling soldiers are allowed character development, evn the stern General you see three brief times, one is allowed he is "I couldn't really give a damn. Two majors errors that ruin movie, calling it"Journey's End" meant as well knew before it started the outcome, even if your knowledge of the Spring German Offensive, and in no army in the world is a soldier allowed to ask the division he wishes to join, especially as such a young age, the alter ego of a brush care-a-less General who know the Germans where attaching in 3 days times would not send his grandson his grave. Paul Bettany such an established actor now is a waking academy award. It is time he receives that award.

adonis98-743-186503 Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, it is the story of a group of British officers, led by the mentally disintegrating young officer Stanhope, as they await their fate. Despite the terrific and well talented Cast 'Journey's End' is a generic war film that lacks the soul of World War but also a good script as it is. The perfomances weren't that amazing either and most of the time people we arguing with each other than fighting with the enemy. Overall a boring mess of a movie and one that i do not recommend. (4/10)

AudioFileZ Journey's End is an unexpected war film focusing on a particular push by the Germans almost five years into a stalemated front in France. The lives already lost on both sides approach a million and it will take even more before Germany is defeated. The so called Spring Offensive by Germany is depicted here and it's brutal. Insidious in the long wait prior to the final horrific destruction of the Allies forward trench. The movie expertly weaves tension in it's story of a fresh, quite young, officer who proves to be utterly brilliant, yet is dead within his first five days. It is the human drama here that grabs the viewer and won't let go. It is palpable in it's intersection of brutality and humanity. This is extremely realistic and reverent to the bravery of men put in a hopeless situation. They know reinforcements, or their only chance, is not coming, and worse, they know the enemy is massing for an all-out assault on a particular day. Yet they have to remain steadfast with orders to hold out. This is a powerful and, often, painful movie to watch. It is reverent in the depiction of men standing firm in outrageously poor conditions. I think it should be seen as a graphic reminder of the human cost of the human cost of war. Especially when some absolutely insane decision is made to hold a front that can't be held with the equipment and manpower present. This is a brilliantly poignant film celebrating bravery and condemning poor decisions from the top too often flippantly decided upon. All in all...if there must be a war there is not really anything on either side that can be called "acceptable loses". Wars cost the ultimate human price, period, and this film's story is a prescient today as it was a hundred years ago. A strong recommendation with total excellence in production and acting.