. . . it seems that many of the characters in this story have a connection to what we call "World War One," but what they refer to as "The Great War." I do not see what was so great about it. This conflict occurred more than a century ago, and the state of medicine seems to be quite primitive. Some of the veterans appear to be horribly scared, and plastic surgery seems to be not up to present day standards. A film such as AVATAR will do much better at the box office than AMSTERDAM, because viewers want a look at an optimistic future in which battle scars can be healed and limbs regenerated in minimal time, rather than being forced to look at a bunch of beat up geezers stumbling around like ghosts of Christmas past.