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Lions For Lambs [2007]
from MGM Entertainment
starring Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Andrew Garfield, Derek Luke, Tom Cruise
directed by Robert Redford

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• PAL

Editorial Review:

The considerable authority of Robert Redford pulls some heavyweight talent into Lions for Lambs, a rare Hollywood foray into flat-out political filmmaking. Three dramas, all connected, play out simultaneously during the same hour: On a mountainside in Afghanistan, two U.S. soldiers (Michael Pena and Derek Luke) find themselves stranded during a new military surge; on Capitol Hill, a Republican senator (Tom Cruise) tries to sell the new strategy to a seasoned reporter (Meryl Streep); and in California, a professor (Redford) tries to light the fire of commitment in an increasingly apathetic college student (Andrew Garfield).

Director Redford cuts back and forth amongst these arenas, a gambit which thankfully obscures how weak the one non-talkfest (the Afghanistan segment) really is. You can tell Redford and screenwriter Matthew Michael Carnahan put their juice in the debate between Cruise and Streep, which summarizes Right and Left views on the Middle Eastern wars, and does so reasonably lucidly--although there is little here that would surprise anyone who has looked into the subject. The college section suggests Redford's belief that there are lots of people, distracted by tabloid culture and self-centeredness, who haven't looked into the subject. So he lectures us about it, sounding suspiciously like an old geezer remembering the good old days. If this film had been released in 2004, it might at least have bucked majority opinion, but coming out in the autumn of 2007, it already felt like old news. --Robert Horton, Amazon.com

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• Folly Of The War On Rhetoric
  "Useful new things to be said about the debacle in Iraq are in very short supply. I'm not sure that's what "Lions for Lambs" intends to demonstrate, but it does, exhaustingly. Essentially, if I have this right, we should never have invaded Iraq, but now that we're there, (1) we can't very well leave, and (2) we can't very well stay, so (3) the answer is, stay while in the process of leaving." Roger Ebert
  'All The Right Moves', and 'All The Right Words': apathy and cynicism, self interest is to have the... more info

• Superb
  I was amazed at how short this film was. It concerns an hour in the lives of several different people and runs for only 20 minutes longer than this.
  In this hour you see some of the best performances from top Hollywood stars for a long time. For me the best was Tom Cruise and Meryl Streep who are utterly convincing in their roles.
  Based on other reviews I was not expecting much - often the best way to approach a film. I'm pleased to say it far exceeded my expectations and is a superb film I am... more info

• very decent movie
  one of the better films of last year this is solid and enjoyable with a great performance from tom cruise who reminds us that he can act.worth a look

• Flawed but absorbing
  I watched this on DVD last night and was still thinking about it when I woke up this morning. Not, I hasten to add, because any of the views it propounds were new to me, or staggeringly well-put, but because I am always interested in eavesdropping on America talking to itself about its own failures. This is a country that we Europeans don't really understand: it's a fantasy land, a dream, in many ways a delusion. But it's so powerful that to not be interested in how it is currently shaping its future... more info

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