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Hart's War

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Original title

Hart's War

Year

2002

Running time

125 min.

Country

United States

Director

Gregory Hoblit

Screenwriter

Billy Ray, Terry George. Novel: John Katzenbach

Cast

Music

Rachel Portman

Cinematography

Alar Kivilo

Producer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Cheyenne Enterprises, David Foster Productions

Genre

Drama | Courtroom Drama / Lawyers. Army. II World War. Crime. Prison Drama

Movie Groups

John Katzenbach Adaptations

Synopsis

In the last months of the Second World War, american administrative Lieutenant Hart (Colin Farrell) is captured by German forces during the Battle of the Bulge. Sent to a German Stalag Prison camp ruled by inmate american Col William A. McNamara (Bruce Willis), Hart is at once thrust into the social order of POWs, where every man thinks of himself first with bribery and trading with German captors commonplace. When two African American pilots become the first non-white soldiers in the camp, one is murdered and the other accused of killing a white sergeant. Lieutenant Hart must then defend the black pilot against charges before an obviously racist American tribunal; unaware that the trial itself is only a front for the real secret of the prison camp.

Awards: 2002: Shanghai International Film Festival: Best Actor (Colin Farrell)

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Critics' reviews

"Absorbing in a low-key way but more dramatic where its secondary characters are concerned than its leads, and capped by climactic incidents that are less than entirely convincing"

Todd McCarthy: Variety
"The movie worked for me right up to the final scene, and then it caved in. (...) the ending gives the impression it is a solution when it is only a remedy. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"

Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times
"Quickly morphs into a messy double message movie with motifs and clichés lifted from military courtroom films like 'A Soldier's Story' and 'A Few Good Men'"

Jonathan Foreman: New York Post
"A movie that wants to be everything and adds up to nothing. "War" is a film that tries to excel on several levels and falls flat on all of them."

Elvis Mitchell: The New York Times
"Just because a movie was inspired by real life and has good intentions doesn't mean it can't wind up as phony as a three-dollar bill"

Michael Wilmington: Chicago Tribune
The plot is canny, but it would be little more than an ingenious springloaded device were it not for the performances by Howard and Iures."

Carrie Rickey: Philadelphia Inquirer
"A decent thriller trying to overcome a rather preposterous premise"

Ella Taylor: LA Weekly
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Hart's War

2002

Gregory Hoblit

6.0

(12,411)