All Quiet on the Western Front
Directed by Edward BergerPaul 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.
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- N8October 10, 2024I'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.
- db0plexApril 11, 2026Absolutely beatiful movie with a chilling score. It does a great job at portraying war and its atrocities. I highly reccomend to watch it in German (with subtitles if you don't know German), as it being the original language, adds to the dialogue.
- Joe GNovember 23, 2025An incredibly shot film, stark in its beauty and unwavering in its brutality. It has little replay value—not because it fails, but because it succeeds so fully in depicting war as the empty, grinding machine it is. War is romanticized, weaponized, and used to churn the young, the poor, and the uneducated into meat for a cause that rarely holds meaning. For what purpose? It was all a waste. This should be required viewing for any teenager prior to turning eighteen, as it deals with war in its truest, least mythologized form. The questions waiting for those who survive—Were you brave? Did you see combat? Were you honorable?—reduce the experience to myths of courage that have nothing to do with the reality. What truly remains are the nights around a campfire, the starvation, the fear, the fleeting friendships forged only because survival required it. The film unfolds like a novel, patient and devastating, committed to showing war without sentiment or spectacle.
- Pasha LevchukAugust 10, 2025Great movie showing the horrors of war with a lot of parallels to what is happening with the Russian war in Ukraine
- Kevin WardJuly 6, 2025Stunning filmmaking. If there was ever streaming film that deserved a theatrical release on premium format screens, it is this. From the opening gorgeous frame, to the harrowing and chaotic action set-pieces, the claustrophobic trench warfare, and the tank sequences, there is so much to behold. The bombastic score blares in, jarringly at first, with a three note phrase followed by silence. This unresolved phrase is a recurring motif that creates this truly unsettling tension whenever it’s used throughout the film. Honestly, I don’t think I’ve ever heard a score quite like it, particularly in a war film. It’s a bleak and relentless film experience depicting the Horrors of War and emphasizes the common War is Hell theme we’ve seen in similar films, but there is also a pronounced theme of futility that’s hammered home. Uniforms of the dead are thoroughly scrubbed, name tags removed, and issued to eager new recruits. Minutes before an agreed upon armistice, soldiers march forward to their deaths. Honestly, I was blown away by this film.
- PJE van der LindenFebruary 28, 2026It was Ok but I did not get involved with the characters as in the earlier two versions of this movie (the characters are not introduced in any way). The acting in the 70's version of this movie was more to my liking.
- georgew73February 22, 2026Excellent WW1 movie. Grim times.
- makdelartFebruary 6, 2026A perfectly realised anti-war film. And it really doesn't matter that it doesn't faithfully follow Remarque's novel. It has its own resonance, its own message, and it is devastating.
- mickerdooNovember 19, 2025Incredibly immersive. No silver lining. No encouragement. Just war is hell. Kammerer was phenomenal. Kat was also great. Heartbreaking.
- jackmeatNovember 13, 2025My quick rating - 7.6/10. Time to get to this year's Oscar nominations for best picture. I have already reviewed Top Gun, so that leaves 9 more to get to reviewing (8 more to watch). It isn't an easy task to make you feel actually empathetic towards German soldiers, but this movie does about as good a job at that as can be possible. Director Edward Berger is able to capture what I would think is a very real transition from being patriotic for the cause of fighting for your country to the horrifying reality that war is hell, no matter whose side you are on. Even though this is a remake that I cannot compare to, on its own, it is still a stark anti-war movie, and the original story is still a first of its kind. I am sure I lost plenty in dubbing, especially from the acting standpoint, but it was still quite powerful. Seeing the way war is in a non-glamorized fashion also helps with the realism. The soldiers here have to walk to get to the battles, and walk to wherever there may be food and shelter, etc. There aren't vehicles dragging them from place to place as we think of it now. A good portion of this movie is the things you see before hitting the front lines. Training, walking, and stealing food were all part of leading up to the nightmares of the trench warfare that was upcoming. Then we are taken straight into a style of combat where just poking your head up gets it shot square. Everything looks accurate to someone who is not a WWI buff by any means, so I am sure historians can make far better assessments of that aspect, but it sure looked solid. Scenes at times were scaled out to show the expanse of the lines in the field of battle spanning for miles, and just two sides gunning at each other. Back then, running across a single tank was a spectacle of fear for the soldiers to overcome. There are a couple of truly memorable scenes in this one, and being spoiler-free, I won't go further, but ONE in particular is such a haunting reality of war. That enemy vs enemy when you don't even know why you are fighting. That scene is captured so well and sticks out as one major highlight in a flick that is definitely deserving of the Oscar nomination. I'll leave it at that since I like to keep it short, and far better expertise can give you even greater insight into the realism of this flick if you search it out.
- ropermAugust 1, 2025This decades Saving Private Ryan and in many way an even more authentic depiction of the horror and brotherly type bonds of War . Beautifully directed and acted.
All Quiet on the Western Front Trivia
All Quiet on the Western Front was released on October 28, 2022.
All Quiet on the Western Front was directed by Edward Berger.
All Quiet on the Western Front has a runtime of 2h 27m.
All Quiet on the Western Front was produced by Edward Berger, Daniel Marc Dreifuss, Malte Grunert.
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.
The key characters in All Quiet on the Western Front are Paul Bäumer (Felix Kammerer), Stanislaus 'Kat' Katczinsky (Albrecht Schuch), Albert Kropp (Aaron Hilmer).
All Quiet on the Western Front is rated R.
All Quiet on the Western Front is a Drama, War, History film.
All Quiet on the Western Front has an audience rating of 9 out of 10.
All Quiet on the Western Front had a budget of $20M.