If you’ve ever heard the word “schizophrenic” used to describe a movie and you weren’t exactly sure what that meant, the wartime drama Hart’s War is a picture-perfect example.
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Hart's War (2002)
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Reviews Counted:116
Fresh:67
Rotten:49
Average Rating:5.9/10
Consensus: Well-made and solidly acted, Hart's War is modestly compelling. However, the movie suffers from having too many subplots.
Theatrical Release:Feb 15, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $19,003,827
Synopsis: Director Gregory Hoblit's debut feature was the tricky courtroom drama PRIMAL FEAR. With his fourth feature, HART'S WAR, Hoblit is back with another. This time the court is inside a WWII... [More]
Starring: Bruce Willis, Colin Farrell, Terrence Howard, Vicellous Shannon
Director: Gregory Hoblit
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03/04/02
Worth a salute just for trying to be more complex than your average film.
02/14/02
Top CriticThere's nothing particularly astonishing about this WWII prisoner-of-war drama.
02/17/02
Farrell ... thankfully manages to outshine the role and successfully plays the foil to Willis's world-weary colonel.
04/15/02
The bright spots in this film are Farell's performance and that of Vicellous Shannon who is just riveting as the camp's commanding German officer.
02/19/02
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03/24/02
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03/24/02
An intense, provocative drama that revels in challenging the established archetypes rather than exploiting them.
02/24/02
[P]roves filmmakers can still mine this genre for a streak of precious metal.
02/14/02
The movie worked for me right up to the final scene, and then it caved in.
02/15/02
Top CriticKatzenbach's book collapses into phoniness at the end, and the movie -- which alters that ending -- is even phonier.
02/14/02
Top CriticAs old-fashioned as it can get, a throwback to cinema's Golden Age and a tribute to the flawed, guilty human beings we call heroes.
10/15/02
...a run-of-the-mill courtroom drama that John Grisham could have tossed off between endorsing royalty checks.
02/15/02
The movie's surplus of male-fraternizing never conveys that these Americans are under imminent danger and stress.
08/27/02
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05/26/06
That the Nazi commandment allows American POWs to conduct a court-martial of another American POW makes this original and entertaining.
02/13/02
...while it is an entertaining, well-plotted film, there's something missing that keeps it from reaching that higher plane.
04/16/02
A solid film...but more conscientious than it is truly stirring.
02/14/02
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