Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Brooklynn There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

fascistbully First saw this movie when I was 14. I remember being angry and upset at the ending. Re-discovered the movie in 2003 as a World History teacher. Starting showing my classes this movie and always interested to see the students reactions at the final scene. I have read numerous books dealing with Gallipoli as well as conversing with members of the Australian Light Horse Association regarding the film and the Gallipoli Campaign itself. Learned a great deal about the event and have a profound respect for those men and what they stood for. Its sad that the mentality and character that those men had are no longer found today...Lest We Forget

Theo Robertson Gallipoli ? A metonym that can be used for the futility of war . The Gallipoli campaign started off as a well meaning campaign by Britain and France to knock out the Central Power of the Ottoman Empire from the first world war or at the very least keep open the supply route of the Black Sea . Unfortunately the campaign quickly fell apart as the Allied force managed to capture the shoreline of the peninsula but found themselves trapped by Turks holding the high ground . After eight months of heavy fighting each side suffered 250,000 killed . wounded , sick or captured and the allied force evacuated in January with the evacuation being the only thing that could be described as any type of success . This film tells the story of the early stages of that campaign .It's an Australian movie directed by Peter Weir who rallies to his country's flag by leaving Hollywood where he had a successful career and making an epic film the likes of which had never been seen before . Gallipoli is often used as a stick by more nationalistic historians such as John Laffin to beat Britain with and has become part of the mainstream Australian psyche and the campaign is remembered far more in Australia and New Zealand than Britain and France , so much so that it's erroneously perceived that the campaign was mainly an ANZAC campaign . The truth is France actually had more troops on the peninsula . That's not to denigrate anyone . merely to point out that there's a creeping myth of revisionary history creeping in and unfortunately GALLIPOLI does play up to a few myths . Like nearly every story you read about the First World War a major character must sign up and take the King's shilling while underage and in this case it's young Archy Hamilton who signs on aged 18 . The film gets an important fact wrong when it says 21 is the minimum age for serving in the ANZACs when in fact 18 was the minimum age and the film does get a few other factual error songs and you can't help thinking Mel Gibson's Anglo-phobia might stem from appearing in this movie That said it is only a movie and if you want truth try reading a wide variety of books on a topic . As a film GALLIPOLI hits the target very often and it's not often you see an English language film from outside America or Britain that tries to capture the epicness of a David Lean type historical movie . The cast are very good and it's easy to see why Mel Gibson became a star via his likable cheeky chappie type of role which he plays here

evanston_dad I watched "Gallipoli" on a whim one night when it aired on TCM as part of a tribute to Australian cinema, and found it to be a moving film about the ultimate horror and waste of World War I.Mark Lee and Mel Gibson play two young sprinters who meet as competitors, become friends, and then enlist together in the war. Not taking much seriously, they both think serving will be a bit of a lark, and indeed it begins that way, with a lot of carousing, drinking, whoring and some goofball antics during combat training. But then they arrive at their destination, and the reality of what war actually looks and sounds like begins to sink in.This movie does a great job of showing that transition from young man bluster and naive belief in the good of a cause to scared everyman, being sent out to certain death for reasons he can no longer comprehend. The film is paced very well, and the trench warfare scenes at the film's end are so expertly juxtaposed with the buddy movie that precedes them, that the effect on the audience is that of a punch to the groin. The very end is devastating and haunting in a way few movies anymore would have the guts to be.Peter Weir directed this before he became known for more popular and Oscar-baity films like "Witness" and "Dead Poets Society." Grade: A

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.