Average Rating: 4.8/10
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Fresh: 47 | Rotten: 132
Despite its powerhouse cast, Lions for Lambs feels like a disjointed series of lectures, rather than a sharp narrative, and ends up falling flat.
Average Rating: 4.6/10
Critic Reviews: 39
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 32
Despite its powerhouse cast, Lions for Lambs feels like a disjointed series of lectures, rather than a sharp narrative, and ends up falling flat.
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Robert Redford directs this dramatic tale of intersecting lives that weaves together the stories of an idealistic professor's attempts to inspire a privileged student, a former student of the teacher who is wounded behind enemy lines in Afghanistan, and a congressman whose interactions with a seasoned journalist reveal much about the man behind the public persona. Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep, and Robert Redford star in a film scripted by Matthew Michael Carnahan. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
Nov 9, 2007 Wide
Apr 8, 2008
$15.0M
MGM
All Critics (187) | Top Critics (40) | Fresh (47) | Rotten (134) | DVD (8)
It means to use the Cruise-Redford-Streep star power to get us talking about things we ought to be talking about.
The film is built not upon characters and plot but upon ideas. That would be fine if the ideas were revolutionary or interesting, but they're fairly commonplace.
It's definitely flawed but I am recommending it.
There is much talk of paralysis in Robert Redford's what's-wrong-with-America movie Lions for Lambs, and there is a whole lot of the same in the movie itself.
Though these dialogues are worthy, the medium doesn't seem right for the message.
Lions for Lambs appears to have been created by someone who's never seen one of these newfangled contraptions called 'movies,' or for that matter, witnessed that phenomenon known as 'speech.'
Pitched with utter sincerity and rigorously filmed sans complexity, energy, life
Lions for Lambs is movie mutton.
The film's points are made obvious the first minute and then monotonously drilled ad nauseum the remaining 87.
Slowly, you suffer the creeping realization that nothing is going to happen. Nothing.
for the rest of us who think that a piece of cinema should be more than that, Lions for Lambs leaves us feeling empty rather than sparked by the zeitgeist the film attempts to capture.
The absence of activists in the streets protesting the war in Iraq continues to confound; the empty seats at theaters showing Lions for Lambs will be somewhat easier to explain.
Lions for Lambs reminds us of what Hollywood does best, when it wants to.
A simplistic, if well-intentioned, overindulgence in obviousms.
It attempts to conquer social, political and military all in the same film, but it doesn't knock any of them out of the park.
For all of its good intentions and clear-eyed idealism, Lions for Lambs is not a movie, it is a political science lecture.
It doesn't take a genius to know who is going to be sacrificed in this weak morality tale.
The premise of the film is actually very interesting. It views the US war on terror from different parallel angles: a liberal reporter interviewing a republican senator (Meryl Streep and Tom Cruise), a university professor trying to get his student to become political again (Robert Redford and Andrew Spiderman
November 7, 2007Super Reviewer
I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. Separate stories connected by a common theme telling a story from different perspectives made the movie relevant to political discussions about American policies and ideas of war. The movie also does the best job showing the price of war with the great lives sacrificed often for
February 7, 2011Super Reviewer
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