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Critics Consensus: An impressive technical achievement with a walloping emotional impact, They Shall Not Grow Old pays brilliant cinematic tribute to the sacrifice of a generation.
Critic Consensus: An impressive technical achievement with a walloping emotional impact, They Shall Not Grow Old pays brilliant cinematic tribute to the sacrifice of a generation.
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It's just images and the voices of those who were there, telling their own stories.And the result is riveting - an immersive, haunting and often transcendent experience that's unlike anything you've ever seen before.
As a work of ethical, empathetic exhumation, They Shall Not Grow Old is a model.
A powerful tribute to every veteran and one of the most empathetic portraits of war ever created.
The technology Jackson deploys is so advanced that the documentary, which has been colorized and enhanced, captures a surprising degree of character and realism.
"They Shall Not Grow Old" is a tribute paid by the present to the past, and what a gorgeous gift it turns out to be.
An achievement, an experience, and a remarkable tribute.
It is a film about soldiers, and one of the best ever made on the subject.
Peter Jackson's World War I 3D documentary "They Shall Not Grow Old" is nothing less than a cinematic miracle, a 21st century restoration of 100-year-old archival footage that puts you right there with the soldiers fighting the Great War.
... not only thrillingly preserves this footage, but also the memories of these men whose bravery and sacrifice deserve another salute 100 years later.
A truly fascinating cinematic document, the sort of thing that shows the power, and the limitations, of the artform to transport audiences through space and time.
Jackson's use of editing is extraordinary.
The final product is not perfect, but close enough for horseshoes. The hardest thing to fix was real faces, especially in close-up.
Restored WW1 footage focuses on the British common soldiers' experience and brings dramatically alive a part of history nearly lost to the dustbins. What's seen is unforgettable and destined to be part of the required curriculum, a sober testament against how casually the expression "the horrors of war" is absorbed anymore. Peter Jackson takes care to linger on the faces of the youth given over to battle death, while the voices of survivors, those who were there, vocalize and remember what that horror was actually like. Necessary viewing.
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