Battle Ground

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Audience Member I haven't watched anything as grim as this in a long time. It was mostly blokes with missing legs rolling around in mud and being shot at by nasty evil Germans. Then every so often it cuts to someone performing an abortion on the heroes wife with a meat hook. SPOILER Low and behold, at the end the meat hook girl was the girlfriend of the bloke who lost a leg. The portrayal of the Lieutenant forcing men to certain death was unforgivable really. To take it further and make him order a sniper to kill his own men was a step too far. Undeveloped characters and caricatures. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Audience Member Awfully presentation of WW1 history in ridiculous propoganda angle portraying one side as heroes and other like pure evil. Film is utterly boring and I regret watching it Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review Audience Member (watched under its original title 'Forbidden Ground' on Netflix) Having read a fair number of audience reviews before writing mine, I could just say 'see all of the above'. Lol. Difficult to know why Johan Earl thought it a good idea to monopolise behind camera AND star in front of it too! He shouldn't have. The writing fails to deliver any sense of emotional connection with any of the characters, nor does it seem to know what the actual story is about - the subplots and dialogue seem to suggest the film is about any number of war-based themes, without ever connecting to one identifiable thread. As for the film score, it is a very poor match to the mood they're trying to create. Having at least a handful of actual British and Irish actors in the cast would have been a good idea... I won't go into how poorly the German soldiers are portrayed! Overall, an inadequate film, poorly cast and lacking in objectivity behind the camera. The only reason I'm not scoring it 0.5 or 1 out of 5, is that the No Man's Land set is likely the most accurate you'll see in a film, and that deserves recognition in itself Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review adam b Boring and cheap. Surprised Lionsgate released this. Avoid entirely Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review andy f A disappointing WW1 movie that doesn't really make you like or feel for any of the characters - especially the lead. It's grim but strangely unmoving. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member I watched this just a few days after the far superior Journey's End and the contrast is pretty astounding, terribly acted and mostly boring and dumb, it felt more like a bad soap opera than a movie. None of the main actors were actually British or Irish so some of the accents were downright dodgy and weird, the dialogue was terrible, as was the delivery. One of the worse parts was it perpetuated the myth that a lowly lieutenant would be sending enlisted men over to die by themselves when it would have been the brigade commander telling him and his fellow officers to lead the charge armed with nothing but a pistol and baton. The pointless side story about his wife having an abortion and dying felt completely tacked on as well, I don't know if they were just trying to increase the drama soap opera style or if they were attempting to make some kind of comment on abortion but either way it was awful, not to mention the nurse that performs it just happens to be the girlfriend of one of the leads at the front, the chances of that are slim to nil, especially as the character in question didn't even attempt to hide his Australian accent. Overall a complete amateur flop of a movie. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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