1917

I kinda made myself watch 1917, even though I'm not much of a war movie buff, even if it's loosely based on Sam Mendes's family lore. It was a half-filled room on a Monday night.

From IMDb...

Two young British soldiers during the First World War are given an impossible mission: deliver a message deep in enemy territory that will stop 1,600 men, and one of the soldiers' brothers, from walking straight into a deadly trap.

I was watching most of this movie between my fingers cos I cannot take the suspense of the poor guy walking around in enemy territory. (I know, I'm a huge wuss) But I was hanging in there for the last third of the movie. 

• If the leads had been more well known, it would've been more distracting.
• Yeah, you kinda figured that one of them wasn't gonna make it, and it was the (kinda) useless one. 
• All that hype about it being one shot is BS. It was just well done cinematography. 
• Seriously, I wonder how long were the bigger name stars (Colin Firth, Andrew Scott, Mark Strong, and Benedict Cumberbatch) were on set for their glorified cameos? Let's throw Richard Madden in there as well. I don't know who their representation is, but good job on the billing? 
• It's true that you don't know their first names until the last act. 
• When you see him fill his canteen with milk, you know it's gonna show up again down the road for someone needier than he. Chekov's milk? 
• By the end of the movie, we all know why Schofield was quite the survivor. 
• For a fluke scene, I thought it was pretty powerful - The one where he was running the wrong way across the battlefield, knowing that he has to get the order ASAP, presumably just running on adrenaline at that point to complete HIS mission. Him getting up and going after running into soldiers was kinda funny. 

But honestly, I cannot watch this again.