The War Below

Audience Reviews

View More (10)

Chris H A heroic true story (based on truth anyway), well told and with solid performances. Every character bar the main one is just a little bit two dimensional though; I also thought the tunnels looked very spacious and there was a light every two feet (surely not). Still, difficult to film it any other way perhaps! Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 05/24/24 Full Review Paul C Incredible movie, in ww1, not a very well known true story of man's endurance against all the odds! Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 08/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Overall, while movie lovers everywhere have surely seen many war films in the cinema, I assure you, you haven't seen one like this.  The War Below introduces a new aspect when it comes to war and the battlefield.  I enjoyed the concept of an equally dangerous and suspenseful war beneath the battlefield.  The film carries an excellent audio track, and audiences will feel and hear every bang and blast on screen.  Leading performances are highly pleasing, but I found some of the side performances weaker and, at times, unfitting.  Lovers of war and drama films should seek this film out as I was blown away by the on-screen experience. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/11/23 Full Review Audience Member A superb piece of cinema which shows the good and bad sides of the relationships in the WWI trenches. The cinematography, directing and producing is excellent giving a large budget feel to a smaller budget film, the acting is excellent and with grip that extends out of the screen from start to finish I'll be watching this again very soon. Definitely worth 5 stars. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member The War Below is about the tunnel diggers who planted bombs under the German trenches at Messines in 1916, which killed 10,000 Germans with a single blast and created the largest explosion ever in the non-nuclear age. A solid war film that draws much of its strength from a depiction of the home front, and the families that send their men to war, but it falters a bit with the actual tunneling. I would like to have known more about the complexities of tunnel digging, and why they had to get men from British mines to dig the tunnels, but the pacing is too fast to ever explain what is going on. Overall, good performances and lots of emotional payoff, and it could have been a great film if it had just been slowed down a bit and gotten more technical. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Audience Member A brilliant, slow-burning drama, with the end moments carrying a lot of suspense and emotion. Not a story I was familiar with Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Read all reviews

The War Below

My Rating

Read More Read Less POST RATING WRITE A REVIEW EDIT REVIEW

Most Popular at Home Now