I got this film on video a few years ago when I thought that it would be a good film and had a interesting story line. Deathwatch is a horror film set during World War One but unlike the horrors of World War One where the armies form across Europe were subjected to horrors that no-one should have to face. World War One was a war of new technologies, old tactics and incompetent commanders cost the lives of millions of young men for the sake of a few metres of land and to protect nation's empires and world influence. The plot is relatively simple, a company of soldiers that are sent 'over the top' to take a German trench but as the go over an eerie fog descends upon them and when they reach the trench only small group of the soldiers have made it to the enemy trench. The film focuses on Private Charles Shakespeare (Jamie Bell), a young soldier of 16 that is terrified and shocked by the things he sees. When the few men make it to the German trench they find that it's been abandoned with only to German soldiers left alive there, cut off from the Allied lines the men decide to dig in and wait for reinforcements to arrive. But as time goes on strange things happen and men being to die Private Shakespeare must cope with seeing in fellow soldiers being to get paranoid and turn on each other. It's not a bad film but for the plot of the film it could have been a better movie, there are some moments of suspense that do make the film more watch able but when the film has finished you feel as if it could have been so much more. The moments of tension are well put together and the acting does make it more believable for the strange idea for the plot and it even has Nick from my family in it. Overall this film is worth a watch but its not a great horror film and does seem to be a bit confused as to when it's a trying to be a war film or horror film.
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Production Year: 2002 - Thriller - Director: Bharat Nalluri, Rob Bailey, Andy Wilson - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Matthew MacFadyen, Keeley Hawes, David Oyelowo, Peter Firth, Jenny Agutter, Lisa Faulkner
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