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Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5039036036900
Format: PAL
Label: MGM Entertainment
Manufacturer: MGM Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM Entertainment
Region Code: 2
Release Date: April 21, 2008
Running Time: 88 minutes
Studio: MGM Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Related Items:
Editorial Review:
Amazon.co.uk Review:
The considerable authority of Robert Redford pulls some heavyweight talent into Lions for Lambs, a rare Hollywood foray into flat-out political filmmaking. Three dramas, all connected, play out simultaneously during the same hour: On a mountainside in Afghanistan, two U.S. soldiers (Michael Pena and Derek Luke) find themselves stranded during a new military surge; on Capitol Hill, a Republican senator (Tom Cruise) tries to sell the new strategy to a seasoned reporter (Meryl Streep); and in California, a professor (Redford) tries to light the fire of commitment in an increasingly apathetic college student (Andrew Garfield).
Director Redford cuts back and forth amongst these arenas, a gambit which thankfully obscures how weak the one non-talkfest (the Afghanistan segment) really is. You can tell Redford and screenwriter Matthew Michael Carnahan put their juice in the debate between Cruise and Streep, which summarizes Right and Left views on the Middle Eastern wars, and does so reasonably lucidly--although there is little here that would surprise anyone who has looked into the subject. The college section suggests Redford's belief that there are lots of people, distracted by tabloid culture and self-centeredness, who haven't looked into the subject. So he lectures us about it, sounding suspiciously like an old geezer remembering the good old days. If this film had been released in 2004, it might at least have bucked majority opinion, but coming out in the autumn of 2007, it already felt like old news. --Robert Horton, Amazon.com
Rating:
- liberal dose of simplicity
Don't get it. Just don't get it. If you have any sense or insight into the world you'll already know all the stuff that this film ponderously pummels into you with dull thudding blows to the head.
If you don't know how the world works then you'll never get past the first 10 minutes before falling asleep or being distracted by trivia (and that is a very, very bad thing according to Uncle Robert) and you won't be reading this.
Rating:
- Folly Of The War On Rhetoric
"Useful new things to be said about the debacle in Iraq are in very short supply. I'm not sure that's what "Lions for Lambs" intends to demonstrate, but it does, exhaustingly. Essentially, if I have this right, we should never have invaded Iraq, but now that we're there, (1) we can't very well leave, and (2) we can't very well stay, so (3) the answer is, stay while in the process of leaving." Roger Ebert
'All The Right Moves', and 'All The Right Words': apathy and cynicism, self interest ... Read More
Rating:
- Superb
I was amazed at how short this film was. It concerns an hour in the lives of several different people and runs for only 20 minutes longer than this.
In this hour you see some of the best performances from top Hollywood stars for a long time. For me the best was Tom Cruise and Meryl Streep who are utterly convincing in their roles.
Based on other reviews I was not expecting much - often the best way to approach a film. I'm pleased to say it far exceeded my expectations and is ... Read More
Rating: - very decent movie
one of the better films of last year this is solid and enjoyable with a great performance from tom cruise who reminds us that he can act.worth a look
Rating:
- Flawed but absorbing
I watched this on DVD last night and was still thinking about it when I woke up this morning. Not, I hasten to add, because any of the views it propounds were new to me, or staggeringly well-put, but because I am always interested in eavesdropping on America talking to itself about its own failures. This is a country that we Europeans don't really understand: it's a fantasy land, a dream, in many ways a delusion. But it's so powerful that to not be interested in how it is currently shaping its future leaders ... Read More
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Lions For Lambs [2007]
starring: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Andrew Garfield, Derek Luke, Tom Cruise
directed by: Robert Redford
directed by: Robert Redford
Our Price: 138,956.40
Prices excluding shipping charge.Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5039036036900
Format: PAL
Label: MGM Entertainment
Manufacturer: MGM Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM Entertainment
Region Code: 2
Release Date: April 21, 2008
Running Time: 88 minutes
Studio: MGM Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Related Items:
- Charlie Wilson's War [2007]
- Michael Clayton [2007]
- Rendition [2007]
- No Country For Old Men [2007]
- In The Valley Of Elah [2008]
- see more
Editorial Review:
Amazon.co.uk Review:
The considerable authority of Robert Redford pulls some heavyweight talent into Lions for Lambs, a rare Hollywood foray into flat-out political filmmaking. Three dramas, all connected, play out simultaneously during the same hour: On a mountainside in Afghanistan, two U.S. soldiers (Michael Pena and Derek Luke) find themselves stranded during a new military surge; on Capitol Hill, a Republican senator (Tom Cruise) tries to sell the new strategy to a seasoned reporter (Meryl Streep); and in California, a professor (Redford) tries to light the fire of commitment in an increasingly apathetic college student (Andrew Garfield).
Director Redford cuts back and forth amongst these arenas, a gambit which thankfully obscures how weak the one non-talkfest (the Afghanistan segment) really is. You can tell Redford and screenwriter Matthew Michael Carnahan put their juice in the debate between Cruise and Streep, which summarizes Right and Left views on the Middle Eastern wars, and does so reasonably lucidly--although there is little here that would surprise anyone who has looked into the subject. The college section suggests Redford's belief that there are lots of people, distracted by tabloid culture and self-centeredness, who haven't looked into the subject. So he lectures us about it, sounding suspiciously like an old geezer remembering the good old days. If this film had been released in 2004, it might at least have bucked majority opinion, but coming out in the autumn of 2007, it already felt like old news. --Robert Horton, Amazon.com
Average Rating:
Rating:
- liberal dose of simplicityDon't get it. Just don't get it. If you have any sense or insight into the world you'll already know all the stuff that this film ponderously pummels into you with dull thudding blows to the head.
If you don't know how the world works then you'll never get past the first 10 minutes before falling asleep or being distracted by trivia (and that is a very, very bad thing according to Uncle Robert) and you won't be reading this.
Rating:
- Folly Of The War On Rhetoric"Useful new things to be said about the debacle in Iraq are in very short supply. I'm not sure that's what "Lions for Lambs" intends to demonstrate, but it does, exhaustingly. Essentially, if I have this right, we should never have invaded Iraq, but now that we're there, (1) we can't very well leave, and (2) we can't very well stay, so (3) the answer is, stay while in the process of leaving." Roger Ebert
'All The Right Moves', and 'All The Right Words': apathy and cynicism, self interest ... Read More
Rating:
- SuperbI was amazed at how short this film was. It concerns an hour in the lives of several different people and runs for only 20 minutes longer than this.
In this hour you see some of the best performances from top Hollywood stars for a long time. For me the best was Tom Cruise and Meryl Streep who are utterly convincing in their roles.
Based on other reviews I was not expecting much - often the best way to approach a film. I'm pleased to say it far exceeded my expectations and is ... Read More
Rating:
- very decent movieone of the better films of last year this is solid and enjoyable with a great performance from tom cruise who reminds us that he can act.worth a look
Rating:
- Flawed but absorbingI watched this on DVD last night and was still thinking about it when I woke up this morning. Not, I hasten to add, because any of the views it propounds were new to me, or staggeringly well-put, but because I am always interested in eavesdropping on America talking to itself about its own failures. This is a country that we Europeans don't really understand: it's a fantasy land, a dream, in many ways a delusion. But it's so powerful that to not be interested in how it is currently shaping its future leaders ... Read More
Action & Adventure • Adult • Anime • Children's • Classics • Comedy • Crime, Thrillers & Mystery • Documentary • Drama • Fitness • Gay & Lesbian • Horror • Interactive • Music • Musicals & Classical • Science Fiction & Fantasy • Sports • Television •
