The film is set during The Great War and violence plays a key part. A battle scene is shown in which soldiers shoot and stab each other with rifles and bayonets.
Large amounts of dead bodies are shown, often tangled up in barbed wire. A man is consumed in barbed wire, killing him.
Quinn shoots two germans with his handgun.
Hawkstone discovers a person that has wielded himself in the mud, the person is armed with a bayonet. Hawkstone shoots the bayonet off, they fight until Quinn shoots the attacking german.
Some of the sequences are very intense, when violence between characters occurs
A paralysed soldier discovers that rats have been eating his legs, a large amount of gore is shown here.
Gunfire amongst the British soldiers is prevalent.