I thought 1917 was very good. Really, genuinely tense in sections - I think I held my breath for the entire No Man's Land section - and really beautiful in others, like the fire scene. To be honest, it comes across as more of a horror than a "war film". The "single cut" thing is cool, but to be honest i don't think it really mattered, and I'm not sure it would be too different if it were a regular edit. There were a few plot head scratches such as
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How did Mark Strong and his lorries get to the farm house? They'd just spent 30 mins clambering through barbed wire and shell holes to get there
but I didn't twig them until after, so I don't suppose it matters, and the film manages to force in a fair bunch of the standard WWI tropes.
But, overall, tense and thrilling and great looking.
I give it 13 thumbs up.
P.S. He's Tommen Baratheon if, like me, you spend a decent chunk of the film trying to work out where you've seen Lance Corporal Blake
before.