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Dominican Rep. Hart's War
12,422
Drama
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 ... [+]
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"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" | NEU |
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"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)" | POS |
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"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'" | NEU |
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"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." | NEG |
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"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" | NEU |
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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." | POS |
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"A decent thriller trying to overcome a rather preposterous premise" | NEU |
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"Works uncommonly well because of the effective manner in which it blends together its various elements" | NEG |
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"In its amalgam of classic Hollywood war movies and courtroom dramas, 'Hart's War' takes the audience to a place that never existed in order to teach it a lesson it already knows." | NEU |
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"Reminds us that the human dynamic can do a lot that explosions can't, even when the film flirts with formula." | POS |
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"Despite its admirable sobriety for most of its running time, the film's climax is a parade of ludicrous clichés." | NEU |
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