Aside from a pretty impressive final battle, there’s little to engage here, although all that waiting around does mean there’s time to nicely flesh out the characters, while the action scenes are well handled.
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03/28/08
Beaufort (2008)
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Reviews Counted:48
Fresh:42
Rotten:6
Average Rating:7/10
Consensus: Beaufort is a deeply observant and meditative war film, masterfully rendered by director Joseph Cedar.
Theatrical Release:Mar 21, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: Lebanon War veteran Joseph Cedar (CAMPFIRE) directs a harrowing, often haunting account of Israel's 2000 withdrawal from Lebanon and the Beaufort ("Good Fort") mountain fortress. Built by Crusaders... [More]
Starring: Oshri Cohen, Itay Tiran, Eli Eltonyo, Itay Turgeman
Director: Joseph Cedar
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Reviews for Beaufort
An achingly honest account of the daily fears faced by soldiers.
03/28/08
Beaufort may be, strictly speaking, a war movie, but for long stretches it feels more like science fiction.
01/18/08
Top CriticBeaufort is a psychological war film that's trying to answer the question of why we fight. A "stranger in a strange land" sense makes the participants less connected and further strips their human element.
03/25/08
[A] blistering antiwar film.
08/22/08
Despite the unremitting focus on the claustrophobia of outpost life, it's hard to ignore the by-now hoary tropes of the war movie with which Cedar litters his screenplay.
03/28/08
Moody, tense and claustrophobic, Cedar's unconventional war movie allegorises the political tensions within a beleaguered, bunkered Israel.
03/21/08
Director and co-writer Joseph Cedar loses all goodwill accumulated by his competent, plausibly close-knit cast with heavy-handed use of clichés.
01/09/08
Beautiful in its way and terrible in its implications, Beaufort marks Cedar as a distinctive and impassioned talent.
03/14/08
Although the film is mindful of Milestone and Irvin's epics of squandered lives, its focus is tighter and less battle-charged, more Samuel Beckett than Oliver Stone.
01/18/08
In the end [it] isn't about victory or defeat... It's about surviving another day, doing one's job, and getting back to family.
05/29/08
Pro-war audiences on both sides will find Joseph Cedar’s vision irresponsible. I think Beaufort captures a higher irresponsibility.
01/14/08
Top CriticFrustration over the futility of their presence in the region (and with those who kept them there) replaces fervor.
01/17/08
Cedar’s film traffics in the mad illogic of battles whose long-forgotten purpose has hardened into mindless routine. But this hushed, atmospheric mood piece, intricately scripted by Cedar and novelist Ron Leshem, is no action picture.
03/13/08
Well-directed, Cedar's powerfully detailed war film centers on Israel's 2000 evacuation of the Southern Lebanese fortress, but also deals with broader issues, such as survival and camaraderie and the futility of war regardless of political orientation.
11/03/07
A fine war picture, one that spotlights war's wastefulness and futility, and humanizes its soldier characters.
03/29/08
Has the claustrophobic feel of 'Das Boot' but is static: no pitched battles, little humor, no women, overlong.
10/23/07
It doesn't come like a full-length, filmed history lesson at all. In fact, it's a pretty fascinating, sometimes disturbing tale about the emotional and physical toll of combat.
10/18/08
Cedar... prefers to let his expansive set and hard-boiled characters tell the story from a ground level rather than implying a commentary... It's as if a weight were lifted, and the 132-minute film moves like a breeze.
02/21/08
War movies are about heroism. Good war movies cast existential questions around the circumstances of that heroism. Beaufort is a great war movie.
01/16/08
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