The characters DID wear the correct helmets and fire the correct carbines tho soon they began foregtting to chamber fresh rounds or insert fresh clips. military actions made NO sense. rivers were raging torrents, then placid ponds, the ground was soggy ponds, then the driest dust. there was no discernable chain of command, much less communication within it--the reason for the silly mission. there were no assigned runners to deliver a message, tho all units were filled with them--HITLER was a runner, forgoodness sake.

this flik missed almost no cliches but failed to ask any questions about this horrible war or the slaughter of the working class after they were treated like dogs--any survivors were STILL treated like dogs.

if you want a good movie about ww1, try paths of glory or all quiet on the western front