At first sight, The Trench appears to have dodged the draft. After the Hollywood double-whammy of Saving Private Ryan and The Thin Red Line, you have to wonder what yet another war film can offer: nothing to compare with the technical virtuosity and horror of Spielberg's epic; or the grandeur of Terry Malick's more subtle effort. Surely novelist William Boyd's directorial debut is fated to fire blanks?
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