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Marco L @decatur555 1 day ago Some small films are limited by their budget. Others have a different problem, and 1914: The Western Front is one of them. You can see the huge effort Klaas van Eijkeren and his team made to recreate 1914 with almost nothing: uniforms, weapons, trenches, locations. That deserves credit. But a film isn't held up by dressing the actors well, and almost everything else fails. The true story is fascinating, young men tied to the neutral Netherlands who join the French Foreign Legion, and there was a film about identity and belonging in it. The script barely turns that into real characters. The dialogue is terrible, people explaining things they already know, and the acting is stiff, as if they were reading in front of a class. If I don't care who is in the trench, it doesn't matter how well built the trench is. Direction is basic, and the action never gives a sense of danger. It has history and effort, but rarely life. The money shows where it's missing; the cinema is missed far more. See more Read all reviews

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