All in all,I liked it for what it is - entertainment. It wasn't exactly gritty and it wasn't exactly a chick flick. It was WWI lite, I suppose. The most glaring inaccuracy would be the fact that James Franco's character was the only soldier in 1917 with highlights in his hair. Sure, clichés abounded, but not so much as to ruin the film. The aerial sequences were quite good. The part where he guy got strafed after landing in a field was dumb. If an airplane's strafing you with a machine gun, would you run in a straight line instead of diving behind your plane? Also, why couldn't Rawlings lift a paper and wood wing one inch to free his pal's hand? Why didn't he hack the wing tip off instead of the guy's hand? Gritty realism it was not. Almost a chick flick, but, thank goodness, not. The WWI trench warfare sequences were very realistic.