Let's be brutally honest. With the massive decline, nay, erradication of masculinity in the west there really are no actual competent adult script writers left in the movie industry and boy does this film continue exposing that loss

because i want to avoid spoilers i will limit my criticism to broad details like this film is only loosely based on WW1, there is no tension, there is only a smidgen of character development despite there being only two main characters.

So why the rave reviews? Visual and cinematography, unlike script writers, clearly still hires competent people rather than diverse ones. Speaking of diversity, this film has it everywhere it can (except among the evil white male villain Germans.) Go watch the documentary, They shall not grow old, and you'll realize that this film like most modern films is utterly racist about Europeans.

Meh , forgettable film that very few will bother to watch more than once.