Hart's War (2002)
Country: US
Technical: col/Super 35 125m
Director: Gregory Hoblit
Cast: Bruce Willis, Colin Farrell, Terrence Howard, Marcel Iures, Linus Roache
Synopsis:
Captured and interrogated during the Ardennes offensive, an American staff lieutenant breaks and is transported to a POW camp shared by US and Soviet prisoners. The brutal treatment of their counterparts by the commandant disgusts the Americans, but when two black fliers wind up in their camp they are greeted with similar racist hatred.
Review:
The film toys with such humanist message making before revealing its colours as another escape movie; the interest of its flawed hero wanes when he offers to sacrifice himself for his client in a mock murder trial, and Willis appears out of place in this world of real choices (he blows up the factory and returns to face his nemesis, thus becoming the WW2 equivalent of John McClane forcing down a jumbo jet before it crashes into the twin towers). The one compelling portrayal is that of the German officer, in true Stroheim/Preminger tradition - except that he appears a mixture of both!
Country: US
Technical: col/Super 35 125m
Director: Gregory Hoblit
Cast: Bruce Willis, Colin Farrell, Terrence Howard, Marcel Iures, Linus Roache
Synopsis:
Captured and interrogated during the Ardennes offensive, an American staff lieutenant breaks and is transported to a POW camp shared by US and Soviet prisoners. The brutal treatment of their counterparts by the commandant disgusts the Americans, but when two black fliers wind up in their camp they are greeted with similar racist hatred.
Review:
The film toys with such humanist message making before revealing its colours as another escape movie; the interest of its flawed hero wanes when he offers to sacrifice himself for his client in a mock murder trial, and Willis appears out of place in this world of real choices (he blows up the factory and returns to face his nemesis, thus becoming the WW2 equivalent of John McClane forcing down a jumbo jet before it crashes into the twin towers). The one compelling portrayal is that of the German officer, in true Stroheim/Preminger tradition - except that he appears a mixture of both!
Country: US
Technical: col/Super 35 125m
Director: Gregory Hoblit
Cast: Bruce Willis, Colin Farrell, Terrence Howard, Marcel Iures, Linus Roache
Synopsis:
Captured and interrogated during the Ardennes offensive, an American staff lieutenant breaks and is transported to a POW camp shared by US and Soviet prisoners. The brutal treatment of their counterparts by the commandant disgusts the Americans, but when two black fliers wind up in their camp they are greeted with similar racist hatred.
Review:
The film toys with such humanist message making before revealing its colours as another escape movie; the interest of its flawed hero wanes when he offers to sacrifice himself for his client in a mock murder trial, and Willis appears out of place in this world of real choices (he blows up the factory and returns to face his nemesis, thus becoming the WW2 equivalent of John McClane forcing down a jumbo jet before it crashes into the twin towers). The one compelling portrayal is that of the German officer, in true Stroheim/Preminger tradition - except that he appears a mixture of both!