Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Kidskycom It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

notebookings "a moving account of troubled times". at times fluid, at times clunky this movie does exactly what it sets out to do...the depiction of the destruction - both in terms of lives and that of art - that war brings upon humankind. wonderful acting all round, from the main actors right down to the supporting cast especially in the final moving scene featuring a man looking introspective yet overwhelmed with joy who hugs and congratulates all around as the armistice bells signal the end of the war. this film brilliantly provokes the question, "what would i do?" sadly no film will ever bring us fully to the answer to that question but regeneration serves to move us that bit closer.

paul2001sw-1 Pat Barker's award-winning 'Regeneration' trilogy was inspired by the fact that a number of the celebrated poets of the Great War had spent time being treated in the same hospital for shell-shocked officers. Her stories of ill men being made fit to die again have a necessarily ironic, but limited, narrative trajectory, but the books offset this through the precise economy of their prose and their complete lack of sentimentality. In his film of 'Regeneration', Gillies McKinnon has been broadly faithful to the spirit of the novels, but has softened them slightly - the setting is now not Edinburgh, but a beautiful Scottish country house, and the soldiers are assigned a dignity and innocence not wholly convincing. The result is a little bland compared to the original, a tale of good men, whereas the books are simply a tale of men and all the stronger for it.

Theo Robertson War is hell and in many ways " The Great War " has had an effect on the British psyche not a million miles removed from the way Jews see the holocaust . It killed British idealism and has made the Brits Euro-phobic or at least Eurosceptic which is a testament to the years 1914 to 1918 . Indeed war is hell but unfortunately Gilles MacKinnon does the impossible and overstates the horrors of the conflict . " Overstates ! How is that possible Theo ? " . Look at the bizarre opening when young British soldiers wail like banshees amongst dead German counterparts as the camera comes to stop on a couple of Tommies having a brew . Are we in a British trench ? If so then why aren`t the stretcher bearers rushing to help the screaming troops ? Are we in no mans land ? If so how can British soldiers brew tea without the fear of German snipers ? Do you see the point I`m making ? The director ignores logic by painting grotesque pictures as to the horrors of war . War is hell but any movie director overstating the case does the dead a disservice , an image is only haunting if it makes sense and this kind of juxtaposition does not make sense I didn`t like REGENERATION , it`s stagey , melodramatic , too talkey and I`m at a loss if the director , screenwriter or author of the original novel should be blamed . I`m also at a loss to explain blatent homo erotic overtones in movies featuring the first world war , REGENERATION is full of them as was the later British film THE TRENCH If you want a taste of the conflict that killed British idealism I recommend you ignore REGENERATION ( And THE TRENCH ) and watch the 1960s BBC documentary THE GREAT WAR

cosm7x This was an excellent movie. Amazing photography and casting and anintelligent scenario which passes messages about how horrific war isto the audience in the mildest yet touching way I've seen. The story involves a hospital in Scotland where officers are sent whenthey suffer a breakdown, a common phenomenon in the first and secondworld wars. In there, a doctor (played by Jonathan Pryce) attempts totreat his patients in a more humane way than the one other doctors ofthe time choose. Through the stories of characters in the hospital --including Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, two poets who happen tomeet and become friends in the hospital -- the life of the Britishsoldiers in the first World War, as well as several political messagesabout that affecting era for humanity are successfully transmitted tothe audience, without blood, without effects or huge battle scenes ina way that touches and indicates its significance more than any otherfilm I've seen about the subject. The performances are excellent, with Johny Lee Miller -- who apartfrom this movie has not shown any signs of serious acting that I'veseen -- delivering a very good performance of a shocked and ambitiousofficer and Jonathan Pryce metaphorically accepting the ideas ofSassoon -- who opposes to the war after a point where he realises itsfutility and the lack of values in the politicians driving it -- canbe though as the link between the soldiers and humanity itself. It is definitely a movie I would recommend! Excellent.