Lions For Lambs (Widescreen Edition)
by Robert Redford
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Actor: Andrew Garfield, Meryl Streep, Michael Pe?a, Robert Redford, Tom CruiseDirector: Robert Redford
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 92 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-04-08
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: United Artists
Movie Reviews of Lions For Lambs (Widescreen Edition)
Movie Review: Lions for Lambs
Summary: 1 Stars
There are already some good reviews of this movie, but the one thing I haven't noticed anyone saying is that the movie has no story. It's pure liberal propaganda, a documentary buried in the look, but never reality of story within it's 3 interlaced pretences at stories. A "story" has literary elements, (say, "rules of engagment") including character, plot, setting, denoument, climax, any one of which missing renders it mere chatter. This offered only character, opinionated characters, poorly developed.
I recently read some Hollywood somebody defending such a story as this, claiming that life has no climaxes or endings, so such stories are more realistic. I can only pity the one who views life in such a way. All lives DO end, and all choices lead to denouments and climaxes, whether the individual wishes to graph his own or not. Those who spend theirs "looking for themselves," and whining, "What's it all about?" while seeking escape in whatever poison they chose, are simply not living as God intends. The life that is not worth dying for was not worth living.
Who could care what happened to any of these characters, other than the 2 on the battlefield, and they were far from realistic, behaving out of character for special forces fighters.
The clue as to where it was headed, which was nowhere, should have been obvious from its title, but unfortunately many viewers (self included) may not thought deeply about the title prior to watching.
If a viewer wants to waste time, assuming a viewer who actually has followed the politics of the past decade, this is a good one to watch. Any who actually want to deeply ponder the questions it ponderously pretends to raise about war and peace, life and death, principle vs. unprincipled, commitment vs. rhetoric, would do better to watch an old movie without politics, such as John Wayne's "The Cowboys," which gets down to the reality of the nitty gritty of right and wrong.
Summary of Lions For Lambs (Widescreen Edition)
Robert Redford, Tom Cruise and Meryl Streep deliver "three knockout performances" (Vue Weekly) in this powerful story about how the decision makers at the top affect American soldiers on the ground half a world away.An idealistic professor (Redford), a charismatic U.S. Senator (Cruise) and a probing TV journalist (Streep) have opposing viewpoints about the actions of our nation and the attitudes of its citizens. But the human consequences of war become chillingly clear for two of the professor's former students, who find themselves trapped behind enemy lines, fighting for freedom... and their very lives.
The considerable authority of Robert Redford pulls some heavyweight talent into Lions for Lambs, a rare Hollywood foray into flat-out political filmmaking. Three dramas, all connected, play out simultaneously during the same hour: On a mountainside in Afghanistan, two U.S. soldiers (Michael Pena and Derek Luke) find themselves stranded during a new military surge; on Capitol Hill, a Republican senator (Tom Cruise) tries to sell the new strategy to a seasoned reporter (Meryl Streep); and in California, a professor (Redford) tries to light the fire of commitment in an increasingly apathetic college student (Andrew Garfield). Director Redford cuts back and forth amongst these arenas, a gambit which thankfully obscures how weak the one non-talkfest (the Afghanistan segment) really is. You can tell Redford and screenwriter Matthew Michael Carnahan put their juice in the debate between Cruise and Streep, which summarizes Right and Left views on the Middle Eastern wars, and does so reasonably lucidly--although there is little here that would surprise anyone who has looked into the subject. The college section suggests Redford's belief that there are lots of people, distracted by tabloid culture and self-centeredness, who haven't looked into the subject. So he lectures us about it, sounding suspiciously like an old geezer remembering the good old days. If this film had been released in 2004, it might at least have bucked majority opinion, but coming out in fall of 2007, it already felt like old news. --Robert Horton
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