This Israeli film arrives trailing some major awards – including the Golden Lion from last year's Venice festival – and with the greatest of respect, it's hard to see how on earth it managed it. Samuel Maoz has directly translated his experience as a tank gunner in the 1982 Lebanon war on to the screen; his film takes place almost entirely inside one tank as it makes its way through enemy territory, with the only outside view (apart from a lyrical opening and closing shot) coming via the gunsight. It's an admirable device, but not exactly an original one: the 2007 Israeli film Beaufort had its soldiers stuck in a single fort on the Israel-Lebanon border. Inevitably the film, with its monocular perspective, lays itself open to charges of political partiality; Maoz would no doubt reply that his is a very personal response to the trauma of war, and never pretended to be anything else. Even so, there's very little that's remarkable here, in what feels like a very studenty cri de coeur: it's cinema from the heart, without doubt, but follows in some very well-worn war-movie footprints. Ari Folman's Waltz With Bashir took similar material and conjured a masterpiece; this is not in the same league.