Unless viewers are aficionados of solo shows and want to see every one they can, this effort comes off as forced, far too self-aware and unfortunately dated.
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12/04/08
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Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun (2008)
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Average Rating:3.8/10
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Top CriticStaged plays just aren’t that cinematic, and even under the capable direction of Rowan Joseph, Mr. McKenzie doesn’t provide enough spark to offset the problem.
12/04/08
Top CriticIt's hard not to wish that the novel had instead been newly adapted into a real film by a director with the requisite daring and imagination.
12/04/08
Top CriticAbly filmed by veteran stage producer-director Rowan Joseph, Bradley Rand Smith's theatrical script provides a bravura thespian workout for Ben McKenzie.
12/04/08
Top CriticTrumbo's aim was a kind of proletarian poetry, but McKenzie's broad emoting has the deadly earnestness of a school play.
11/14/08
Top CriticTrumbo's dialogue is as subtle as a bayonet charge and as outdated, while McKenzie, alternately shouty and moany, is not the actor to pull it off.
10/24/08
Top CriticLittle more than a good performance of dated material...Trumbo's pacifist rant now seems pleasantly corny in its memories of small-town America and absolutely irrelevant to the very real issues of present-day warfare.
10/22/08
Top CriticWhether or not you agree with the pacifist message, the presentation is often overwrought and maudlin.
10/10/08
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