War and Peace

War and Peace (1965)99/100 Since this was split into 4 parts, here are my ratings for each. Part I: 9/10Part II: 10/10Part III: 10/10Part IV: 10/10 First of all, what an amazing and spectacular film that was, everything was so beautifully well-done, calling this a great film is an understatement, as it is a work of ART, the amount of time it took to make this masterpiece must have been a lot, Sergei Bondarchuk is an absolute beast, it must have been extremely hard to direct such a large cast, every hour of the 7 hour runtime was very entertaining, surprisingly. long still-shots weren't really used, which is very rare for films this long. War and Peace is possibly one of the greatest, no. THE GREATEST anti-war film/novel ever made, the amount of effort that it took to perfect this film is very much worth my praise, the cinematography is unlike any other, the acting is superb, all the characters were written perfectly. Honestly, splitting this film in 4 parts was a very good decision, it made it feel shorter. the 7 hours to watch this was worth it, I think it will be hard to find a film this long and this good, the portraying of each of the character's demise, despair, joy, and romance was phenomenal, watching this in one sitting can't be possibly done, unless you have the right amount of focus and patience, I took a 30-minute - 1-hour break after each part, to refresh my mind and to do things, I hope to see more films like this one, it would probably take me a week to get over this, this was made in 1965, but the cinematography and writing made it feel like it was made in the 2000s, I honestly would have given this a perfect 100/100 score, but I believe the greatest film is yet to be watched by me, or who knows, maybe when I re-watch this piece of art, I'll give it a perfect score, the 1965 depiction of Leo Tolstoy's anti-war novel is the greatest out of all of them, I'm very grateful to have found this so easily free on Youtube, thank you for such a beautiful film.