There are films that sometimes have no luck when I look at the critical notes (and elsewhere) sometimes they did not find their audience, sometimes they did not know how to come out at the right time. And then there are those other films that are considered good films, see very good films, when he doesn't deserve it that much, the spectacle that overwhelmed the audience and the plastic of the fiction surpasses the emotional reality coupled with a disproportionate promotion.

1917 disappointed me and left me with a bitter taste, because if the exercise of the sequence plan is, it must be recognized, magnificently successful, it nevertheless leaves the same sensation as Gravity once reached its end: To want to make a sequence plan a film at the perfect rhythm, The result is a large eight with a taste for attraction that seems to have escaped from a video game or theme park. 1917 not being the only one in these years 2010-2020 to make cinema, a leisure at the discount with easy shortcuts to more too stir its spectators.

1917 is a film of technician and in this sense it sends the very heavy, the visual performance is hallucinating, the photography as well as the staging offers a grandiose plastic with real moments crushing by the number of appearing on the screen in this pyrotechnic show millimeter. But this is all it offers, this wanting yet authentic in what it will make us live and tell us (from where the text implanted here is there to hang it to reality), it however already slashes the historical reality for the sake of the show (as in video games in fact) but it is especially in horror that it is most visible, become a joke or a step of luck, diluted in a few contemplative shots to bring a touch of poetry supported by music that ensures the rhythm. The film however acts as a mirror of the main characters on the spectators, the nativity takes precedence over the cruelty of reality and the good feelings sweep away any traumatic reality.

The emotion is therefore never really there, the depth of the characters either, because this war does not exist and these actors who play soldiers either. It's not nice war, it's not a video game cinematic, people are not nice and good feelings like ideals quickly fall apart. Camaraderie is much stronger when it all exists as betrayals, enemies are not all traitors and for all this, the history of cinema is filled with excellent films much more honest on the subject. Spielberg himself great craftsman of entertainment, had not forgotten to talk about the essentials, Nolan neither. The factory war not heroes, it manufactures horror, dead and nothing else... And as such 1917 could almost seem like a propaganda film.

After for Sam Mendes it is little to be wanted, hence these two characters, came on discord to do a part of Call of Duty and who make it a canvas or take full eyes on their TV 4K. It's cinema will tell me, yes, but it's cinema and cinema and there clearly, the only thing I saw is a beautiful video game cinematic, empty of real meaning and therefore without flavor, but not much more, at least not what I call "cinema".