1917

Producer/Director Sam Mendes, together with Cinematographer Roger Deakins and Production Designer Dennis Gassner, has created, perhaps, the best movie of 2019.

Two British Lance Corporals, Schofield (George MacKay) and Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman) are sent on a mission through World War 1’s No-Man’s-Land to stop 1,600 men from falling into a German trap.

The movement of these men is tracked as if we, in the audience, were with them.  The terrain is bleak and the journey harrowing.  We are given the true feeling of what it was like to be one of these warriors and one can’t leave the theater without a better understanding of the hazards of war.

This is not a walk in the park for viewers, but it is filmmaking at its best.

I give 1917 a 5 out of 5.