Hart's War Reviews
Common Sense Media
Big WWII drama about honor, courage and sacrifice.
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| Original Score: 4/5
EmanuelLevy.Com
Nationality, race and politics clash in unexpected ways in this well-directed and acted but extremely old-fashioned prison drama that recalls genre film sof the 1950s and 1960s.
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| Original Score: B
Combustible Celluloid
In the ever-increasing onslaught of war movies, it stands head and shoulders above most of the competition.
Top CriticThis earnest WWII escape story throws in a courtroom drama, but to nobody's advantage.
RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland)
'Hart's War' is a perfect example of a film that remains anchored in mediocrity from beginning to end. It plods along like a chronic asthmatic, meandering to a conclusion that's both irritating and implausible.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Film Quips Online
...Suitably gritty and intense...
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| Original Score: 4/5
Film Threat
It's hard to know whether or not to recommend this film because for every thing it does right there's at least one and occasionally two things it gets ever so wrong.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Netflix
Engaging thriller combines military movie genres and succeeds as more than the sum of its well-oiled parts.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Reaches for more than it can handle, but it's well-acted and earnest in its intentions.
Cincinnati Enquirer
As 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.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
DVDFuture.com
As an American propagandistic attempt to market patriotism (or courage, or honor), it is arguably successful; by its own merits it is merely decent.
Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
The movie's surplus of male-fraternizing never conveys that these Americans are under imminent danger and stress.
Urban Cinefile
Hart's War is an absorbing courtroom drama that gives Farrell the chance to show off his star quality although the ending disappoints.
Shadows on the Wall
It makes a few fundamental mistakes along the way--mostly due to Willis' star power--but it's still thoroughly entertaining
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Proves a servicable World War II drama that can't totally hide its contrivances, but it at least calls attention to a problem Hollywood too long has ignored.
| Original Score: B
Daily-Reviews
A perfectly respectable, perfectly inoffensive, easily forgettable film.
| Original Score: 3/5
Mark Reviews Movies
A compact story told with focus and assurance.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Movie Metropolis
Neither the film nor its characters break any new ground, but for most of its running time it is an intelligent and compelling prisoner-of-war story
| Original Score: 7/10
UK Critic
A serious and absorbing drama with the old-fashioned notion of telling a story and taking the necessary time to do so.
| Original Score: 3/4
