The Trench

Written and directed by William Boyd, this tense drama takes viewers inside the trenches of World War I on the eve of one of the bloodiest battles in history, the battle of the Somme in 1916. Although the story gets a little too paint-by-numbers at times – you meet a character who tells an overly dramatic story from his past and BLAM he gets killed – the  acting  is strong enough to make even the most obvious moments work. Daniel Craig is particularly effective as the tough sergeant who has to rally the men to climb out of the trench when the time comes, and the always enjoyable Danny Dyer steals the show as a roguish man-about-town whose attempts to remind the lads what life is all about back home, through his collection of lewd girly photos, come back to haunt him.