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50The acting is solid, but Tony Pierce-Roberts's unimaginative camera work falls short of his highest standard.
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63By the time they're ready to leave their trench, we're not at all ready to see them go.
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60What lifts The Trench above the run of the mill is the intensity of its disgust.
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70A powerful anti-war film.
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70The acting, by a large cast of little-known young Brits chewing on South London accents like dog bones, is uniformly splendiferous.
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50There isn't a line you haven't heard or a stock character you haven't encountered before.
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70Soberly and intelligently examines the fear, frustration, anxiety, animosity and boredom of waiting to advance into the terrifying other world that lies over the lip of the trenches.
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50Boyd brings no new insights to this drama of men in a confined space, a situation that's been the basis for many powerful war films.
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60Boyd would be smart to add a little sound and fury next time around. War is hell, after all.