Beneath Hill 60

Beneath Hill 60 (4.0/5)

(Director: Jeremy Sims. Cast: Brendan Cowell, Gyton Grantley, Aden Young, Jacqueline Mackenzie, Anthony Hayes, Steve Le Marquand)

Regent Cinema, Brisbane

19^th April 2010

Slow and intense, this 1916 war movie follows a group of Australian miners tunnelling beneath enemy lines to plant a huge bomb. With no pace and no heroics the focus is very much on the story, the actors and the situation – and it’s almost magnificent. Not quite achieving the strength of Das Boat or the characterisations of Letters from Iwo Jima as a claustrophobic war movie Hill 60 is nonetheless an absorbing story well told.