Didn’t analyze it that much. Less than Saving Private Ryan but it showed to an extent the fight in the trenches.
Didn’t walk out even thinking about it. Something was missing.
I don’t know if you can make a war movie without the smell(s). Dead horses, smell of sh*t and intestines,
overflowing latrines or burning excrement with kerosene, if any, rotting corpses, all the screams and smell of fear.
My old watchmaker (a 37th Division veteran of WW2) also cited that as a reason why he would never watch any war movie after he came home from the war. Not just the smells, but things like stripping the dead of their equipment and uniforms because your own were rotting apart in the field.