I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Sergeant Michael Dunne (Paul Gross) survives a brutal vicious assault and finds himself in a Calgary hospital being treated by nurse Sarah Mann (Caroline Dhavernas). She and her brother David (Joe Dinicol) face problems arising from their German father who died for the German army. David's asthma keeps him out of the war which is looked down upon by his girlfriend Cassie Walker's father. Michael is facing desertion charges and possible execution back at the front despite winning a medal from the fight. The three of them eventually find themselves back in the war.There are compelling bits of scenes here and there. It's kinda daring to have the protagonist bayonet a helpless German boy in the forehead. The shaming of the men who haven't enlisted is interesting. The story back home is way too messy encompassing too many elements. It's trying to do too much. Paul Gross is not gritty enough for this role. The first half becomes a sincere melodrama. The second half is more or less a big muddy WWI trench war movie. The production is not as high as Hollywood. The sincerity does keep it from being truly bad.

Passchendaele is a decent World War One film, one of the best out there and there's not too many it has minor flaws but does the job brilliantly. Paul Gross has done a great job acting in and directing this film. Some may be put off by the love story but for me this just reinforces and shows the losses of many people during this time period and era. Passchendaele shows how many people who once lived to together as neighbors are divided by stupid things like family nationality and false loyalty and bad promises of adventure and glory. The love story isn't for everyone but wow many girlfriends and wives lost partners and how many young men never came home to true love or had a chance to live full lives? This film does get you thinking!Of course this is no Band Of Brothers in terms of scale (I know that's World War Two) but Paul Gross has done extremely well acting and directly. I find this film to be a good tribute to his Grandfather and to those who lost something because of World War One.The film is low budget however this doesn't really show to be honest and this is a fitting tribute and good story! With regards to the low budget the battle scenes could have been bigger and better but this is by no means a bad film.The acting and casting is spot on and this film really does show the stupid ill placed passion and faulted logic of young people in this era and, it shows the pressure many had to go through and be forced to fight for freedom not knowing what the loses and costs would be. World War One was a slaughter and waste of millions of lives and the deaths of certain characters and the gruesome way they die shows this war was not the fairy tale adventures many painted it to be at the start. Among all the blood and slaughter there is a story and the film does well to reflect and show not everyone fighting was a murderer or cold blooded killer and many just wanted it to end. We need more World War One films like this to teach young people the truths and to keep history alive so we don't make the same mistakes again.

A collection of hackneyed war movie clichés...Gross' ultimate cash grab. I left the theatre after hurling Coke and popcorn at the screen. God what a disgusting waste of time. The problem with many Canadian films is, they seem to try too hard to emulate Hollywood. Give up! And: Gross..... Stop trying to tell us you have talent! The idea of having a guy dying on a cross of barbed wire. Jeeezus...... pathetic. . What a ludicrous idea! What were you thinking?? The idea of a romance being relevant to a war movie..ridiculous! You should have stuck to a theme more realistic than what you put out...like, showing men and mules knee deep in mud, sleeping in foul trenches for weeks at a time, and enduring meat - headed tactics dictated by senescent British generals who lived in relative luxury 20 miles away from the fighting.

The subject has immense potential - Passchendaele was described by then British Prime Minister Lloyd George as 'the most grim, futile and bloody fight ever waged in the history of war, the result of stubborn egotism unsurpassed among the records of disaster'. Grim and bloody struggle was certainly shown in the film but the futility of it and the blind arrogance and stupidity of the commanders was not. This is a major failing. Formula films are always artistic failures. And Passchendaele is a formula film. The obligatory romance and attractive men to attract the female audience, the rabid battle scenes to excite the young males and the historical context to attract the educated were all included. And yet it fails because at the moment critique towards the end of the film something so ridiculous happens that one questions the common sense of the whole team. Often such failings are the result of egotism in the film production and when the writer, director and lead actor are the same man this is often the case. Paul Gross is undoubtedly talented but given too much rein, as he was here, the result becomes self indulgent. And the casting of Joe Dinicol as the young soldier was inept. Joe may or may not be gay - there is no statement on this unmarried 27 year old - but he certainly comes over in voice, manner and style as a stereotypical 21st. century fag who has just stepped out of a gay sauna. In short he simply doesn't fit the context of a Canadian villager born in 1899. I thought very highly of the battle sequence (until the absurdity at the end) and the questions raised about the unnecessary killing of a young German soldier begging for mercy at the beginning. These were strong points that allow me to raise a score above 5. But the rest of the film is weak and would not even be tolerated were it not for the excellent war sequences. Have a look at the film by all means - but don't expect too much.