Hart's War (Blu-ray) R
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 5 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: March 31, 2009
- Originally Released: 2002
- Label: Mgm (Video & Dvd)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Bruce Willis & Colin Farrell | |
Performer: | Terrence Howard, Vicellous Shannon, Jonathan Brandis, Scott Michael Campbell, Rory Cochrane, Cole Hauser, Michael Landes, Michael Weston, Sam Worthington, Marcel Iures & Linus Roache | |
Directed by | Gregory Hoblit | |
Edited by | David Rosenbloom | |
Screenwriting by | Terry George & Billy Ray | |
Composition by | Rachel Portman | |
Produced by | Wolfgang Glattes, David Ladd & David Foster | |
Director of Photography: | Alar Kivilo | |
Executive Production by | Arnold Rifkin |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
Big WWII drama about honor, courage and sacrifice.
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Common Sense Media
Rating: B --
Proves a servicable World War II drama that can't totally hide its contrivances, but it at least calls attention to a problem Hollywood too long has ignored.
Denver Rocky Mountain News
Reaches for more than it can handle, but it's well-acted and earnest in its intentions.
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
Rating: 3/5 --
Farrell ... thankfully manages to outshine the role and successfully plays the foil to Willis's world-weary colonel.
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BBC.com
...[A] stolid and earnest military courtroom drama...
Entertainment Weekly
...Farrell wins sympathy through his somber, thoughtful deliberations, a generously underplaying Willis brings gravitas, and Marcel Lures' commandant, Colonel Visser is a surprisingly rounded creation...
Total Film
Rating: 2/5 --
'Hart's War' is a perfect example of a film that remains anchored in mediocrity from beginning to end. It plods along like a chronic asthmatic, meandering to a conclusion that's both irritating and implausible.
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RTÉ (Ireland)
Product Description:
Director Gregory Hoblit's debut feature was the tricky courtroom drama PRIMAL FEAR. With his fourth feature, HART'S WAR, Hoblit is back with another. This time the court is inside a WWII prisoner-of-war camp. The defendant is Lieutenant Lincoln Scott (Terrence Howard), a black officer accused of killing a racist sergeant (Cole Hauser). Scott's lawyer is Lieutenant Tommy Hart (Colin Farrell), a second-year law student at Yale. A U.S. senator's son, Hart was having a relatively easy war until he was captured, interrogated, and sent to Stalag VI. The camp commandant is the urbane, charming, and ruthless SS Major Visser (compellingly played by Rumanian actor Marcel Iures). The ranking American officer at the camp is Colonel William McNamara (Bruce Willis), and Hart is soon in conflict with him. When Scott is accused of murder, McNamara insists that the prisoners should hold a court martial, and he appoints Hart counsel for the defense. At the court martial, Hart finds his client is being railroaded, although he gets help from unexpected quarters. Intricately plotted by scriptwriters Billy Ray and Terry George, and filmed by Hoblit with his accustomed attention to detail, HART'S WAR is a devious and absorbing courtroom/POW drama.