The end of the films leaves the audience wishing for better, but the body of the film constitutes real cinematography - scenic, beautiful, humanistic. All actors play their roles very well, and one can see George MacKay developing in this film to become the great actor in "1917" 7 years later.

I hate whoever made this movie... fuck you, fuck you, fuck you... you are a piece of shit... glorifying man's fucked up inhumanity to man with absolutely no hope of any positive resolution for future generations and no justice or respect for the lives of those who pay the price... fuck you!

Offensively bad compared to the book. Also a very bad movie. This film feels simultaneously rushed and slow, and this is because the film tries to cram in moments from the book simply because they are in the book but not necessarily important to the story of the book. The result is a film where everything feels forced and a lot of the time silly. 1/10

While some of the plot decisions are ridiculous, Private Peaceful still has something to say about the War itself.

This is a TERRIBLE film, it could have been brilliant. I don't like the book either

Nice watchable great war movie. Sad

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So. I was confused. This was listed as a new release on Rotten Tomatoes, but when I looked it up on IMDb, it's from two years ago. Which makes sense, because the late Richard Griffiths is in it. And then I figured it out. Jack O'Connell, one of the leads, is about to be famous. If you don't know his name, you will. He received critical praise for the English movie Starred Up, and is about to make his big movie debut in Unbroken, the biopic about the Olympian who became a POW in WWII. So. This is his House at the End of the Street, his Non-Stop. Which were filmed before Jennifer Lawrence and Lupita Nyong'o were famous, and released after/as they were becoming household names. So, anyway, back to the movie itself. It wasn't that good. Hence all of my justification for watching it in the previous paragraph. The dialogue is bad. Like I cringed a couple of times. The pacing is slow, the plot gets overly sentimental. It's just a lot. The story beneath it all is actually quite interesting, but it just didn't work for me. The cast tries their hardest to make it all work, and they're not bad, but they were fighting an uphill battle in a blizzard. So, just wait until O'Connell's new war movie comes out, it will most likely be better.

Opened sweetly and ended shockly, "Private Peaceful" is moving, a can't-take-off watchable film from start to finish, valuable for whole people even no exceptional age, eventhough it's old-fashioned and setted as war.

I read the book ages ago and could not remember much about the plot, except the extremely harrowing ending. I thought it was a really powerful and well-made drama, which was interesting from start to finish. The trenches scenes were well executed.

Beautiful adaptation of a terrific book

definitely not as good as the book

The film deals with several deep issues and mentalities of early 20th century Britain perhaps covering the ground a little to fast to do it all justice, that said it is still a meaningful work of cinema art. It will also be known as Richard Griffiths' last film.

A beautiful portrayal of love and loyalty, this film gives a convincing insight into the lives at home and at war of young men in the First War. Key relationships are poignantly rendered, firstly between confident Charlie Peaceful and his sensitive and introspective brother Tommo. Their relationship with their father is particularly moving as well, as is their mutual love for their friend Molly. One thing that stands out for me is the authenticity of the film's portrayal of their acceptance of each other, of one sibling's 'conquest' of Molly, and of the relative poverty of their situation as fatherless farm-boys - although the outbursts of politicised rebellion in this respect are also convincing, if not when blurted out to the landowner who is bizarrely drinking in the public bar with the lads. This is indeed one of several anachronisms in the film (along with unrealistic woodcutting of the forester and the strangely silent field hospital), but these do not undermine what is otherwise a deeply moving portrayal of an everyday tragedy.

nicely done if lacking in pace

This is what you call a silent runner. Straight to video not on 온라인카지노추천 as far as I can tell with some very impressive actors, scenery and story well worth adding to your Lovefilm list!

Twice as peaceful in and around The Great War.