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...presided over a decade of mass murder and mayhem across the Balkans seemed untouchable for so long, and then became almost forgotten as the world's attention fixed on a new global villain. Yet Slobodan Milosevic will now have to sit each day in a well-lit U.N. courtroom, flanked by two guards, to answer to charges of crimes against humanity--even if he does remain as defiant as ever...
...first trial of a head of state. The prosecution must convict Milosevic not just in the eyes of three sitting judges but in the court of world opinion. Yet never has the Hague tried a defendant so uncooperative. Milosevic seems determined to make the proceedings a spectacle of courtroom subversion, refusing to recognize the tribunal, refusing to enter a plea, refusing to select defense lawyers, refusing even to wear headphones to hear the proceedings in Serbian...
Director Gregory Hoblit and screenwriters Billy Ray and Terry George, working from John Katzenbach’s novel, desperately try to create a movie that is both a courtroom drama and a war story, though they lack the prerequisite fighting of a war movie and the judicial aspects of a compelling courtroom drama. Furthermore, the film’s message about honor and courage is blatantly spelled out; for the moviegoer who might miss the lesson, a voiceover describes how the protagonist is now able to tell his son the true meaning of the words for which he fights. These...
Although Hart’s War is intended to demonstrate that honor and courage can exist in different forms, what it really shows is that a movie cannot be completely successful if it attempts too many different forms: in this case a war epic, a courtroom drama, a cinematographic masterpiece and a parable. Hart’s War may have many excellent components, but it does not fit together in a cohesive whole...
...first trial of a head of state. The prosecution must convict Milosevic not just in the eyes of three sitting judges but also in the court of world opinion. Yet never has the Hague tried a defendant so uncooperative. Milosevic seems determined to make the proceedings a spectacle of courtroom subversion, refusing to recognize the tribunal, refusing to enter a plea, refusing to select defense lawyers, refusing even to wear headphones to hear the proceedings in Serbian...