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Bruce Willis’ role in Hart’s War can be gleaned entirely from looking at the film??€™s promotional poster; his picturesque army hat, salute and stoic expression rarely leave him during his short time onscreen. But the poster is also misleading, because it fails to reveal that Willis only plays a supporting role, and that the film itself is not a war story...
...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 transparent aspirations infuse the movie with a sense...
...point out our own mindless magnetic attraction to action films while we ignore the important issues of the world. On the other hand, there is the more likely possibility that this action film director has made himself a loud and violent film that effectively turns him and the film??€™s production companies into the very corporate entities that this film was meant to vilify...
This line of reasoning must have been going through the minds of Kristine Johnson and Jessie Nelson when they wrote I Am Sam, an improbable story of an autistic man who fights a custody battle for his daughter. Nelson, who is also the film??€™s director and co-producer, flopped with her last script (the universally despised The Story of Us), and seems so eager to atone for that disaster that she pulls out all the stops for I Am Sam. The first-time director cast the versatile Sean Penn as the lead, the sassy Michelle Pfeiffer...
...reason for this delay in character development may be that the film??€™s first half focuses too much on the father-daughter relationship. Unfortunately, this is hindered not only by the lack of chemistry between Penn and Fanning, but also by the fact that the audience may have difficulty relating to Penn’s character. In the second half, the movie shifts focus to the relationship between Dawson and Harrison. Because the audience shares Harrison’s reservations about Dawson, Dawson is allowed to develop in response. This is similar to the character dynamic in Rain...