Journey's End (2018)

Intense, gripping, stylish and poignant

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Amazing war movie showing events on WWI, british against german. The acting is excellent, specially from Sam Claflin which shows the massive amount of pressure an officer gets from fighting in the war.

Journey's End is an adaptation of RC Sherriff's play set in the trenches during World War One.A young officer Raleigh (Asa Butterfield) arrives to the trenches straight out of training. Excited with his posting. Raleigh has pulled a few favours through his uncle, an army bigwig to be in the unit of Captain Stanhope (Sam Claffin) who he was at school with and who is going out with Raleigh's sister.Stanhope though is suffering from the strains of command, the chaos around him and death. After a daring but suicidal mission, Stanhope loses his second in command, the stoic Osborne (Paul Bettany) which drives Stanhope further into drink and takes his temper out on Raleigh who now realises that life in the trenches is not a bed of roses.The film takes place in the dugout over the course of six days, with the soldiers under a sense of impending doom. You see a range of other characters, many are anxious, a few are suffering from shell shock, a fewer still trying to keep going with some sort of humour.Director Saul Bettany has tried to open up the play with an action sequence, but it is too many men talking in dimly lit scenes. As 2018 is the 100 year anniversary of the ending of the Great War, this was something just too melancholy, familiar and low budget. It is a journey that we have seen before, the countless waste of young men but this story is told in a lugubrious fashion.

I watched the movie for Sam,paul and Asa they are my favorite actors in all their works especially Asa and Sam ,, but the story or the script diminshed their acting abilites a great deal ,,, the movie was mostly under ground people eating and preparing food ,, there were so many food scenes than war scenes also there were a lot of plot holes as We didn't see the relationship between the young soldier Raleigh and Captain Stanhope from school not one scene even to clarify how they were before these hard times ,,, didn't know if they were friends or just a fiance to his sister nothing more Not one good memory of good flashback came to any of the soldiers' minds as they were in this horrible place not one scene ?? When Captain Stanhope first saw his young friend he didn't act properly didn't discuss it further with him as they didn't know each other at all ,,, wasn't caring much about him till the last scene of the movie that was so disappointing They portrayed his alcoholism but it didn't affect his leadership abilites at all the last scene when Asa's character died that was the only scene I liked and was moved by it they were brilliant and showed how much they could have used them to more drama and more friendship scenes between them

It's no secret that there is an abundance of WWII movies, but not many world war 1 flicks. World War 1 is a dark, interesting, and brutal war, and this film really captures that. The smoke, the dirt, and the filth of the set and area immediately immerse you into the film, and really make you feel like you're right there experiencing it. The acting is great and all well performed, each character interesting and showcasing the effects that war can have on a person's mental state. It's a slow burn of a film, taking it's time developing characters as well as leading up to an inevitable and dreaded battle, and the slow burn is absolutely worth it. The final 20 minutes of this film are absolutely terrifying, yet beautiful.