The greatest movie ever made..!

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

I first became aware of this story - including the real life inclusion of a couple of real-life distant relatives in that unit - when the local newspaper here reported on the making of the movie a couple of years back.Like some of the other reviewers here, I also found this movie to be better in some way than the likes of Gallipoli, Anzacs and Breaker Morant.I would recommend this film to anyone either wanting to simply see a good war movie, and to those wanting to know more about Australia's war history - even "fictionalised" and "dramatised" versions..Comparing this movie to "Hurt Locker" was surely a joke, on those reviewers part: Not only do the two have little in common, this movie is more realistic, and it IS based on real events (and not the twisted stories that end up in many American movies..). ~ and real people, several of whom came from around this region.. And they cover two entirely different eras...Calling "Hurt Locker" a superior movie was a ridiculous and pathetic comparison on a couple of people's parts ~ in reality, they are two completely different movies ~ and I consider "Beneath Hill 60" to be a much better and more worthwhile than that average American offering."Beneath Hill 60" earns Ten Stars from me..

Excruciatingly hard watch, edge of your seat at moments, thoroughly realistic, nearly a tear jerker, but not forced. Flash backs are neatly done, introducing the background life of the main character, the fellow soldiers of experience, naiveté and his life before, with a touch of the life after, his grown love and life history. Also neatly suggests the stigma of not going to war and also introduces the necessary madness of the old Guard officer class and attitude at the time. Don't let the dry earth, should be wet earth spoiler influence you, watch this film. My opinion, only the title let it down, the World audience probably thought it was a cheap horror-flick. I am proud that ex-Colonials are at least making the effort to educate the world that World War One actually happened and it wasn't a video or x box game invented by Japanese tech guys.......... would recommend this film to all. "Lest we Forget".

There's been so many quality period films and TV series of both the first and second World Wars now that you'd think directors would have got the details down to perfection. IN this film they did in most aspects... the mud and claustrophobia we're well illustrated but I kept being distracted by on glaring (literally!) aesthetic detail they'd decided not to bother with. All these WW1 troops had gleaming white teeth - and full sets at that.Dental care certainly wasn't close to creating celebrity smiles in 1916 - even more so after a few years in the trenches eating bully beef and putting up with bad daily hygiene conditions. When you're spending a few million on filming a realistic era of history - why skip on elements such as these?! The little details help the viewer to suspend disbelief and for me - once I saw the first soldier with a full white set - I found myself watching all the others in comparison when I should have been starting to feel transported to their plight.

This film should be seen by all Australians. It is authentic and extremely well acted; no overacting and no gilding the lily. Take a box of tissues. As an indication of how special this movie was, at the end while the credits were playing, everyone except two people remained in their seats for the entire running time of the credits and the upper part of the theatre was full. I would like to encourage younger people to see it; young people like those who visit Gallipoli would appreciate its significance. It depicts the true nature of the first world war and also depicts the essence of the Australian character; free-spirited, somewhat disrespectful of officer ranks until said officers earn respect. WWI was not like other wars; though the very awfulness of the trenches is obvious, the movie dwells just enough but not too much on this aspect. I hope it is successful overseas though I cannot imagine the British going to see it in large numbers, nor the Americans. The British are gently lampooned once or twice and would not take kindly to this, and the Americans do not get a look in at all so they would not be likely to be motivated to see it. However, if they did, I think they would appreciate it.