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This is probably a great movie to recommend to 17-year-olds in the middle of their high-school Political Science assignments. Prof. Malley (Redford) imparts to his University students all the qualities that any adult with a measure of common sense should possess: not trusting every story that appears in the press, questioning the government, being able to read newspapers between the lines, being able to analyse news rather than digest it. It would be great if all these skills were taught to teenagers in high schools. It is, however, depressing when they are tauhgt by filmmakers to adults (who are, presumably, the target audience here). Worse still, the filmmakers do their job poorly, and the movie sizzles out before it even begins. As the credits begin to roll, you realise that you've just watched a collection of platitudes dressed up as an intellectual discovery. People who are smart enough to understand its supposed message don't need to watch it; the others won't have a clue anyway. Either way, give it a miss - you can find more interesting things to watch tonight.
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It's good that Robert Redford chose to cast himself as a college professor in this film as it saved another actor a black mark on their career. That Meryl Streep and Tom Cruise joined in on this triple take on the War on Terror doesn't make the film any more interesting, it just keeps you wondering when the movie is going to take off. Well, it doesn't, unless your form of entertainment centers around long rants about war and politics. It offers nothing new about the war on terror or its politics that hasn't been said by dozens of other bleeding heart liberals over the last several years.
Meryl Streep comes the closest to actually creating a real character in her role as a TV reporter, but interviewing a miscast and unconvincing Cruise as a US Senator lends no credence to her part in this civics lecture disguised as a film.
Shame on the three of you! If you want to share your political views on the war on terror in Iraq and Afghanistan, just do so, but don't try to fool us out of our money and entertainment time in the process.
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I thought that it was an interesting film, however I was dismayed as to the message that Robert Redford was attempting to get across.
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Probably not since Louis Malle's My Dinner with Andre has a movie demanded so much aural attention from a viewer, but the subject presented here is most worthy - why we are fighting the war on terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan and what our individual accountability is in the current morass. Robert Redford, one of the film industry's leading liberal voices, returns to the director's chair for the first time in seven years (2000's The Legend of Bagger Vance was his last) with this 2007 drama written as a three-pronged polemic by Matthew Michael Carnahan (The Kingdom). Carnahan's intentionally didactic screenplay is full of eloquent arguments, but the film's structure points to the movie's chief limitation, which is that the characters are only there to present opposing points of view. The net effect feels more like a civics lesson, especially for two of the three plot threads. The third attempts to translate those political arguments to the actual war zone, but somehow, the night scenes on an isolated hilltop don't make the impact necessary to make the rest of the film resonate.
The first storyline consists of an interview and ensuing debate between charismatic Senator Jasper Irving, a defiantly pro-war Republican hawk on an obvious Presidential track, and Janine Roth, a veteran, Lesley Stahl-like journalist he personally chose to reveal a new offensive the U.S. military is taking in Afghanistan against the Taliban. Their thrust-and-parry conversation is the best part of the movie, but it leads to the weakest part, a meltdown Roth has with her editor over the way the media shapes public opinion on the war without taking any responsibility to end it. The second plot thread involves an early-morning conversation between Professor Stephen Malley, a liberal academic teaching political science, and Todd Hayes, an obviously bright but disaffected student. They uncover Todd's reasons for apathy which stirs Malley to motivate the young slacker toward activism on any scale. The third storyline ties Malley to two former students, Ernest Rodriguez and Arian Finch, best friends both on scholarship, who heed the professor's advice by enlisting. This troubles Malley deeply, and the two are subsequently sent to Afghanistan to be part of the offensive described by Irving in the first storyline.
Tom Cruise is ideally cast as Irving since he has already proven he can convey pending malevolence with surprising conviction. As Roth, Meryl Streep is solid even as the script makes periodic pokes at her character's age. As an actor, Redford appears terrifically engaged as Malley, blurring the line between actor and character to maximum effect. Derek Luke, Michael Peña and Andrew Garfield are effective in the younger roles. Mark Isham's stirring score is a good match for the gravity of the subject. Even though it's clear that Carnahan's screenplay is designed to raise more questions than it answers, the movie feels strangely incomplete, overly calculated and predictably emphatic despite the earnest intentions. To Redford's credit, the movie doesn't take sides, but it doesn't really finish making a compelling case toward political activism either. His meticulous commentary track is the chief extra on the 2008 DVD, as Redford goes through not only production details but also plot points with precision. There is also a twenty-minute featurette, "The Making of Lions for Lambs" which follows the movie from script to casting to production. All the principal actors are featured, as well as Redford and Carnahan. There is a second featurette, "From Script to Screen", which seems redundant with the first in specifically covering the script development. There are also a couple trailers for the film and a seven-minute retrospective on the United Artists studio.
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All the negative reviews make me want to vomit. the whole problem with our dying country is the peoples inability to open thier narrow minds to more than just thier own ambitions. The war in Iraq is the most contriversial event in our recent history and for good reason. sure i want to stop terrorism but this is not how to do it. Invading countries that disagree only makes US the Terrorists. The film hits home and gives all the reason for its meaning the only problem is the ignorant average american. The probelm with our counrty is we no longer see others as americans but as Liberals or Conservatives. WE ARE DEVIDED, NOT UNITED. and i will not tell you my political party because all it will do is couse more hosdtility between the two parties, this way you make up your own mind. Guess, and if you do. Than Same on you. because my political does not make me any less or any more of an american. I am longer a proud citizen but a shamed citizen.
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