All Quiet On The Western Front

This is the third remake of this “anti-war” epic which takes place during WWI and follows Paul and his friends from university to the Western Front with absolutely no clue when it comes to understanding what they’re actually signing up for.  It’s frighteningly accurate in showing the atrocities of seemingly endless fighting and the irony of thinking you’re safe, when, in reality, you’re only seconds away from the possibility of being blown to smithereens.   There are two stories going on simultaneously, one of the soldier who just wants to go home and the signing of the Armistice agreement.  The commonality is that in both cases, everything is fraught with peril.  It’s edge of your seat entertainment of the worst horror genre, reality.  This could have been set in any war and the outcome will always be the same, trauma, despair, PTSD, extreme violence, and the survival instinct pumped up to the nth degree.  Cinematography is absolutely gorgeous, the film is dubbed in English, it’s a long film and if you have an aversion to violence, I recommend you watch something like Puss In Boots:  The Last Wish.  At least there’s hope for Puss, not so much for Paul’s posse.  If you wish to compare this version to the two previous versions, I recommend you watch the shot by shot film at the following link:  https://www.imdb.com/video/vi3997942297/?ref_=vp_rv_ap_0    My rating is a howitzer, a luger, and a Goose, which translates to 2 stars.