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Hart's War (2002)

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Reviews Counted: 115 Fresh: 66  Rotten:49 Average Rating: 5.9/10
 
Consensus: Well-made and solidly acted, Hart's War is modestly compelling. However, the movie suffers from having too many subplots.
 

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Runtime: 2 hrs 5 mins

Theatrical Release: Feb 15, 2002 Wide

Box Office: $19,003,827

Synopsis: 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... 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. [More]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Bruce Willis, Colin Farrell, Terrence Howard, Vicellous Shannon, Jonathan Brandis

Director: Gregory Hoblit
Screenwriter: Terry George, Billy Ray
Producer: Wolfgang Glattes, David Ladd, David Foster
Composer: Rachel Portman

DVD Info

Release:

Nov 13, 2007

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
  • Single Side - Dual Layer

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
  • Stereo Surround - French, Spanish, Portuguese

Additional Release Material:

  • Alternate Scenes - Deleted Scenes
  • Audio Commentaries - 1. Bruce Willis - Star; Gregory Hoblit - Director; Billy Ray - Screenwriter
  • 2. Producer
  • Trailers - Original Theatrical Trailer

Text/Galleries:

  • Stills/Photos

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Nationality, race and politics clash in unexpected ways in this well-directed and acted but extremely old-fashioned prison drama that recalls genre film sof the 1950s and 1960s.

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Lynne Truss
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12/15/03
Sarah Dunant
This is London
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'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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02/13/03
Tom Grealis
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...Suitably gritty and intense...

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02/08/03
John R. McEwen
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It's hard to know whether or not to recommend this film because for every thing it does right there's at least one and occasionally two things it gets ever so wrong.

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Chris Barsanti
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Engaging thriller combines military movie genres and succeeds as more than the sum of its well-oiled parts.

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James Rocchi
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Reaches for more than it can handle, but it's well-acted and earnest in its intentions.

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Jeff Strickler
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10/30/02
Matthew Turner
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Paint-by-numbers claptrap.

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10/21/02
Jean Lowerison
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As old-fashioned as it can get, a throwback to cinema's Golden Age and a tribute to the flawed, guilty human beings we call heroes.

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10/15/02
Margaret A. McGurk
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As an American propagandistic attempt to market patriotism (or courage, or honor), it is arguably successful; by its own merits it is merely decent.

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08/27/02
Garth Franklin
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The movie's surplus of male-fraternizing never conveys that these Americans are under imminent danger and stress.

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Mark Palermo
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