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...cares if the detainees in Guantanamo Bay may be mistreated? These are the people who butchered a nation, treated women with contempt and smuggled weapons into a POW camp, resulting in the death of at least one American. Under the circumstances, they are being very well treated. DALE R. MINOR Circleville, Ohio...
...titular Hart is actually Lieutenant Hart (Colin Farrell), an American soldier taken prisoner by the Germans near the end of World War II. His POW camp is ruled by an unintentionally humorous German colonel and Willis’ Col. McNamara. Shortly after Hart begins his stay at the camp, the arrival of two black pilots creates racial tension among the inmates of the camp. The uneasiness results in two deaths and a court-martial trial, in which Hart is called upon to represent and defend one of the black...
Hart’s War begins slowly, almost dreamily as a voiceover accompanies grainy snow imagery. The movie follows Hart as he is transported to the POW camp where he meets McNamara and eventually begins his role as legal defender. Yet the court-martial portion of the film does not begin for some time, leaving the viewer confused as to where the movie is headed. While these ending scenes might be the essence of the movie, the beginning is more compelling and believable. When the court-martial and subsequent war-related scenes begin, Hoblit switches from showing to telling...
...breakout star of the film is in fact Farrell, a relative unknown from Ireland who gives an impressive performance as the son of a senator who is shielded from the front line but not from confrontational situations in the POW camp. Farrell, as well as Marcel Iures (who plays German Col. Wilhelm Visser) and Terrence Howard (who plays Hart’s client), all upstage Willis’ colonel. In fairness to Willis, however, his character is much less dynamic than his German counterpart or his subordinates. While these other three characters each get the chance to glorify their position...
...immediate purpose for holding the prisoners is not to prepare charges against them; it's to interrogate them in order to more effectively wage the fight against al Qaeda. According them POW status would necessarily impede that process, if not render it impossible. After all, the Geneva Convention obliges a POW to reveal only his name, rank and number, and protects him from any form of duress...