1917 is a solid WWI film. It doesn’t have as many cool action scenes as other war films, but it does have several good sequences. The film has a couple of plot twists and includes an unexpected and inglorious death of one of the main characters that reminds the viewer how quickly and randomly someone could die in the first world war. The film did go out of its was to include as much diversity as possible for a WWI film by inclusion Sikh Indian soldiers fighting along side the British.