The army has no way of reaching the 1,600 men, such as dropping a message from a plane, sending flares, or using a pigeon or a messenger dog, so they send two soldiers who are not trained as messengers?
Both of the messengers carrying the urgent message, which has to be delivered in hours, are weighed down with food, heavy rifles (they are both carrying Lee Enfields which weigh about 4 kg), plus ammunition, and bayonets?
One of the two soldiers is stabbed to death by a wounded German pilot they've just pulled from a burning plane and saved the life of, who happens to crash land right into the barn they are standing in just after a dog fight?
When they push a truck out of the mud, 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 rifles at the hero from the hip. Two of the German soldiers even run, and repeatedly fire the bolt-action rifles from the hip while running, and land shots 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 then reloading a bolt action rifle from the hip, and shouting "Englander". Very great respect for the running-and-shooting-and-reloading-and-aiming-and-shouting Germans, but normally there is a better chance of hitting something if they aim rifles while not moving, rather than shoot from the hip while running.
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 they're all relaxing at an outdoor concert?
And location-wise, this is next to a river, which is next to a burning town, at night, yet then the soldiers are attacking from an adjacent trench over an open plain? They're "behind enemy lines" yet they've had time to build extensive fortifications, including tables and chairs?
Why do the Germans start shelling the British trench as the attack starts, then stop shelling it when the attack is called off? Where is the German line in the attack?
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? There aren't any "combat veterans" of the first world war around to point out how fake this film is.
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