One of the two soldiers is stabbed to death by a wounded German pilot who happens to crash land right into the barn they are standing in just after a dog fight?
They have no way of reaching the men, such as dropping a message from a plane, sending a flare, or using a pigeon, so they send two soldiers who are not trained as messengers?
Both of the messengers carrying the urgent message are weighed down with food, heavy rifles (they are both carrying Lee Enfields which weigh about 4 kg), plus ammunition, and bayonets?
When they push a truck out of the mud, notice how the driver doesn't need to be told to push on the gas pedal, they just start pushing it and simultaneously the engine revs up. And the hero just has to be there on time so he needs the truck to go, but then he gets right off the truck at the next tree obstacle.
Around the middle of the film, multiple German soldiers are shown firing battle rifles at the hero from the hip. One of them even runs and repeatedly fires the bolt-action rifle at the same time, from the hip, and gets surprisingly close to the hero. I am surprised at reviews saying the hero is bulletproof, rather you should congratulate these excellent marksmen of Germany for being able to land a bullet within a region at all close to him, when running, and simultaneously firing a rifle from the hip, and shouting "Englander". Very great respect for those Germans.
He escapes from the Germans then he swiftly encounters masses of Englanders, who are "behind enemy lines" yet have posted no sentries, so nobody takes any notice of him? And this is next to a river, which is next to a burning town, at night, yet then the soldiers are attacking from a trench over an open plain?
Why do the Germans start shelling the British trench as the attack starts, then stop shelling it when the attack is called off?
And why do the reviews try to make it sound like your opinion of this film is an opinion about military service or about world war one, rather than about the film?
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