All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front
Paul Baumer and his friends Albert and Muller, egged on by romantic dreams of heroism, voluntarily enlist in the German army. Full of excitement and patriotic fervour, the boys enthusiastically march into a war they believe in. But once on the Western Front, they discover the soul-destroying horror of World War I.
N8 reviewedOctober 10, 2024
I've never read the book so I can't comment on it's accuracy with that, but as a war movie, this is a top tier movie.
The action scenes are top notch with some absolutely AMAZING cinematography with some nice long shots mixed in all over the place. The sound design is also really nice and sounded real good on my average sound system.
This is a movie with not much to cheer for. It aims to capture the horrors of the war and absolutely nails it. It's a bleak movie with lots of sad deaths, horrible deaths, and other deaths to expect in a movie like this. The actors in this do a great job showing all the emotions they are feeling, which also adds to the horror of it all.
For me personally, I put this in up there in one of the best war movies ever made. Netflix really did a great job with this one.