Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Leofwine_draca GALLIPOLLI is an Australian coming-of-age drama with one of the darkest outcomes I can remember seeing in a film. Part CHARIOTS OF FIRE, part harrowing war flick, it follows the fortunes of a couple of gauche young men as they enlist in the ANZAC forces and head over to Turkey to fight, with the expected outcome. For the most part this is a slow and beautifully shot human drama, featuring a youthful Mel Gibson acting well alongside the unknown Mark Lee. The performances are naturalistic and there's a lot of Aussie humour to make things flow along endlessly. Inevitably it becomes an anti-war film towards the end of the running time, ending on one of the most poignant climaxes you'll ever see.

tom movidata Don't continue reading if you do not want to know how movie ends. I was drawn to this movie for the sound track, Mel Gibson and the historical significance. It was entertaining for cinematic reasons, but movie was weak because the characters lacked intelligence. Particularly the 18 year old who stated his excitement at the eventual combat he would engage in at Gallipoli. He stated that it was an 'adventure' as he wrote his letter home. What adventure? He had already trekked across Australia and seen the Pyramids, culture in Egypt. The only thing waiting for him in combat was a bullet. That is exactly what he got. He gives himself a pep talk before he runs into the 3rd and final wave of attack on an enemy that had already wiped out two waves of Australians completely with machine guns. He even dropped his gun so he could run faster to the enemy. What was he expecting when he got there? A kiss? Mel Gibson's character wasn't any smarter. If i ever watch this again it will be the music playing and the video blacked out.

bayardhiler There aren't too many films out there that are able to show the forging of a bond between two people and their journey into a hellish ordeal like 1981's "Gallipoli" does. Directed by Australian new wave director Peter Weir, it begins in the land Down Under in the early twentieth century and tells the tale of two unlikely companions, champion sprinter Archy Hamilton (Mark Lee) and railroad worker Frank Dunne (Mel Gibson), as they travel across the Australian landscape to sign up for the army so they can fight in the Great War being waged in Europe, the war that would come to be known in history as World War I. Neither one really knows what the war is about (Archy is more determined to sign up while Frank seems to be along for the ride) but that doesn't stop them from traveling thousands of miles to sign up for the front. Along the way, we the audience come to know and care about them. Archy is someone who is determined to do something with his life and has become caught up in events he doesn't fully understand while Frank is wisely more skeptical but still unable to resist the peer pressure of the time. Eventually they do find their way to the army, becoming separated but meeting again while stationed in Egypt. From there, they are sent on the doomed campaign to take the Gallipoli peninsula held by the Turks and we the audience bear witness to the full tragedy and folly of war that was the eptimany of World War I."Gallipoli" is a film that will stay in your memory for a number of reasons. First and foremost is the level of acting shown by everyone but especially by Mark Lee and Mel Gibson. Lee plays Archy as someone who is both bright but terribly naïve about the realities of the events he is so determined to get involved in while Gibson (in his earlier and better days before everything went off a cliff for him) plays Frank as someone who probably shares the audience viewpoint of why are we fighting this war but still finds himself stuck fighting in what he was skeptical about in the first place. The direction of Peter Weir is clear and crisp and goes a long way to create the story. But above all, what makes "Gallipoli" as haunting as it is is the story it tells and the history behind it. World War I was one of the lousiest wars ever fought in human history, not only because of its high death toll, but also the reason why it was fought to begin with: The stupidity and arrogance of Europe's old guard imperial leaders. When you get around to it folks, that's what it was all about and if you know your history, World War I only sowed the seeds for an even bloodier and more horrific war a little over twenty years later, World War II. By showing a small part of that wider war, a group of innocent kids fighting in the trenches on a doomed campaign, "Gallipoli" hits you hard and it leads up to a final shot that will haunt you forever. It's a film that the human race could really learn from today. After all, at the time of this writing, this year of 2014 will mark the 100th anniversary of the start of the Great War and it just so happens that at the same time the United States is witnessing the chaos and bloodshed being perpetrated in the country of Iraq, a country where we spent ten years fighting in and sacrificing some 5,000 of our soldiers, only so we could see everything crash and burn in the end! I guess we haven't come very far, have we folks? With all that said, I can't say "Gallipoli" is an easy film to watch but it is one that should be watched, if only to make sure that we never lose sight of the fact that is almost always the innocent who suffer the most in wars and therefore should only commit to such events when there is no other option. So watch and learn the lessons of "Gallipoli" for the sake of future generations. Also starring Bill Kerr, Robert Grubb, Heath Harris, and many more.

Kiwong1-567-978800 I watched an interesting documentary on the Gallipoli landing. Some of the myths of the landing were addressed: the ANZACS landed on the correct beach, the landing was done under the cover of darkness with few casualties. The British landing was horrible by comparison.I watched the movie Gallipoli, which I enjoyed and have given it a rating of 9.I see that the film been criticized for anti- British bias, depicting that slaughter of Australians being sent over the top against impossible odds, with the British command complicit in continuing the offensive.Despite the conclusions of the narrator of this documentary, that the loss of ANZACS was somehow only minor, and the British copped it worse, I can see how this myth may have developed. Apparently very early in the campaign Australian commanders recommended evacuation, the hills could be not be taken.However, the British commander Hamilton said no to this, and for troops to dig in. ANZAC troops were not evacuated for another 6 months at loss of 8,000 lives. So in that way many ANZACS, and British and French troops were lead to the slaughter and sacrificed unnecessarily in a campaign that was lost not long after the landing at Z beach and elsewhere on the Gallipoli peninsula, on a decision made by British commanders.