It's WWI and Brittish Y Company has been separated from their regiment and discovers a German trench were they try and kill off the few Germans left there and then stays to hold the trench. While staying there and waiting for reenforcements to arrive, strange things start to happen to everyone in the company and it seems that evil is all around them.
You should of course never trust the comments on a cover for a movie as they often tend to be quite exaggerated, but still you can't help but to think that someone has actually written this and are meaning what they say.
It's amazing though, before actually viewing Deathwatch I looked at the movie cover and one comment said: "Blows the horror genre to pieces" and the second comment said: "Chilling suspense throughout", which of both couldn't be more far from the truth.
The first comment is just way too much so no reason to get in deeper on that. Second comment one could actually believe, but then after watching the movie and realizing that the main thing this movie lack is actual suspense, it just makes it even more irritating.
Anyway, I didn't expect too much from this movie to begin with, although I never thought it would turn out as bad as it did.
This movie had potiential for, while maybe not to be great, at least being able to deliver, unfortunately that didn't happen.
It's so boring and an hour into the movie after just a few lame happenings I was seriously thinking of turning the movie off, but I never did and finished watching it only to end up very disappointed.
The few things that happen are not at all worth waiting for and it completely lack of any horror and suspense what-so-ever. The enviroment and atmosphere is there and visually it looks good but does not really help.
It's not interesting and I couldn't wait for the movie to be over, also there are no scares (to wake you up).
We get a little gore but it ain't that much and nothing special really. The actors weren't too bad but I can't say they were very good either, some worse than others. I would skip this one if I were you, it's a snore.
One word: Boring. Even though horror and war might seem like a great combination, it so didn't work here. Don't spend your time watching this, watch R-Point instead which is not a great flick, but deals with the same thing and is way better than this snoozefest.
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ALTERNATIVE TITLE: No Man's Land
MOVIE YEAR: 2002
DIRECTOR: Michael J. Bassett
WRITING CREDITS: Michael J. Bassett
GENRE: Horror, War
CAST: Jamie Bell, Mike Downey, Laurence Fox
COUNTRY: UK, Germany, France, Italy
RUNTIME: 94 min
RATING: 2/10
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