They Shall Not Grow Old - Reviews

...Peter Jackson’s remarkably immediate and visceral documentary seeks to immerse the viewer in the banal and horrifying realties of "The Great War" and succeeds on nearly every level imaginable.

Jackson and Walsh have done something special bringing all this old footage to new life...

I’ve often argued that cinema is a time machine, but rarely has that seemed so true.

Colourisation has a bad rep in film circles, and mostly rightly so (...) But here, with painstaking attention to detail, it brings alive the documentary footage.

...Jackson has provided an admirable service that never, not even for a second, feels like a dry history lesson.

...Jackson has crafted an historical portrait of matchless immediacy and power, in which young souls lost in a century-old war stare out across the years and meet our gaze.

...a memorial that resonates like no other documentary.

...the movie's 99 minutes come closer to understanding the entirety of war than just about any other film...

...viser krigen, som man aldrig har set den før.

Mäktig Jackson-dokumentär om första världskriget.

...återkallar första världskrigets fasor med teknisk magi.

Gammalt filmmaterial har ljudlagts, kolorerats och saktats ner för att ta tittaren så pass nära livet i skyttegravarna som möjligt, och det är väl genomfört.

Historien kliver fram ur bioduken...

...en imponerande bedrift där den digitala tekniken används på bästa möjliga sätt. Filmen består av fantastiskt restaurerade 100-åriga bilder, som får liv med hjälp av inspelade intervjuer med de soldater vi möter.