- Studio: Paramount Pictures
- Release Date: Mar 16, 2001
- Starring: Ed Harris, Joseph Fiennes, Jude Law
- Summary:
- Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
- Genre(s): Drama, History, Thriller, War
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 14 out of 33
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Mixed: 14 out of 33
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Negative: 5 out of 33
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90Though issues of politics and philosophy are touched upon, this is a film about the people inside the uniforms -- a story of human beings under pressure, forced by circumstance to make choices both impulsive and, on occasion, heroic. It's also the new year's single most satisfying movie experience thus far.
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80Marred by an unconvincing love triangle and an insincere dénouement, it's a story that nonetheless resonates as much as "Saving Private Ryan does."
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60Despite the success of these action sequences, Annaud and his ultraserious cast are so determined (admirably) to keep war from seeming romantic that we are never quite pulled into the movie.
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30It's as if an obsessed movie nut had decided to collect every bad war-movie convention on one computer and program it to spit out a script.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 18 out of 22
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Mixed: 1 out of 22
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Negative: 3 out of 22
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