Firstly, the good... Jessie Buckley is great, and Jessica Raine is even better, in fact quite extraordinary. A few of the other actors (mostly the women, as well as young Toby Woolf) also aren't bad. But there "the goodness" stops.I am not even going to bother with comments about the landrovers, weapons etc, as this is not meant to be a kit-spotters film. But I have never seen a film which managed to get so many aspects of the story wrong. The interrelationships are written with every last cliche possible, and mostly are utterly unrealistic. Just one example out of literally hundreds: a Major who is unable to make up his mind about what to do when under fire in the field, and has to get his Captain to decide, has lost all credibility - it is inconceivable that the next day he would carry on as before. There is inconsistency after inconsistency, often within minutes of each other in the same episode. The story is infantile - despite the publicity blurb, the entire writing and editing team clearly do not have the faintest clue about anything military - there were so many errors in the plot, that came so frequently, that I gave up bothering trying to note them down. The dialogue contained anachronism after anachronism. In summary, the 3 stars I gave this film are solely for the 2 lead actresses - the rest would get none.
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