5/5 Heartbreaking
  by Mark E. Lehde (St. Louis, MO)
Outstandingly done story of the famous Lost Company. Not a happy story, well it couldn't very well be now could it, but very compelling and well acted and directed. A must for those who have an interest in and wish to better understand that time period of history.

4/5 The Butcher's Bill
  by James P. Quinlan (Caledonia,MI)
All the King's Men is a poignant and graphic account of village males ripped from a pastural, buccolic life of another time into the horrors of the 20th century's World War I.

This could easily be a companion piece to the film Galippoli where the futility of the 'well laid plans of mice and men ' come to naught in the early battles on the continent [Ypres,Passendale].

I was impressed with the strides taken to re-create this incredible saga with fidelity of authenticity and realism.

3/5 All the King's men
  by Douglas Cox (trinidad)
To much emphasis was placed on the private lives of the soldiers. David Jason, although a good actor, was mis-cast. His age and physique was not in keeping the era portrayed. Another thing was that there was too much supposition on the fate of the soldiers ending. Were they killed in cold blood or was that theory.

4/5 All the King's men
  by Jean H. Laprime (Boston, MA USA)
A thoughtful speculation on one of the great mysteries in WWI's forgotten war in the Dardanelles.

3/5 semi factual film
  by Frances J. Walker (england)
I must say a lot of this film is pure fiction and is definitely sensationalised such as the young bride who has to have sex with the nearest man!

Captain Frank Beck was a real person, and I was brought up with the story about him, as his 3rd daughter was my grandmother.

I feel it shows his nephews as quite pathetic characters but in fact they were very brave men(as were a lot of soldiers of their time) and they were later decorated with military crosses although sadly none of them survived the war.

As fiction its ok as fact, take it with a pinch of salt-loosely based on fact

David Jason did a much better job than I expected from an actor more known for comedy