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Lions For Lambs [2007] | ![Lions For Lambs [2007]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51mDRYtjrlL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Robert Redford
Actors: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Andrew Garfield, Derek Luke, Tom Cruise
Studio: MGM Entertainment
Category: DVD
List Price: £19.99
Buy New: £3.76
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 3830
Format: Pal
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 88
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5039036036900
ASIN: B0012OTS2O
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: April 21, 2008
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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
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 absolutely genius March 19, 2008
11 out of 16 found this review helpful
To the earlier reviewer (Top 1000 - seriously???) I can only wonder whether he's actually seen the movie, and I mean no offense, but I just can't wait for the DVD to finally come out.
Genious script and writing, the dialogues are so genuine and hardly ever contrived and with beautifully developed characters.
Brilliant and original storytelling that manages to not fall into the 3-different-storylines-but-all-are-connected-clichee quite superbly. Each perspective is told independently by leaving personal links between the character incidental and largely irrelevant to the story.
Stellar perfomances by the ensemble cast, that bring each character to life. Cruise is remarkably spot-on, Meryl Streep excels as always.
Perhaps the most striking feature of the film: It doesn't offer easy answers, simply tells a complex story, and brillianty so.
Superb June 16, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
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 a superb film I am happy to recommend.
 Clever anti-war propaganda May 7, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I was surprised at some of the reviews. This propaganda film was made for America and portrays America as it wants to see itself. All the elements of patriotism are there: Cruise as the Bush-supporting politician who has his version of the world, Redford as the slightly cynical activist lecturer and Streep as a `middle of the road' but anti war journalist. All the American based issues about the 'War on Terror' are there. It is totally from the American mindset and its message is not as powerful to European eyes, but you have to admit that as piece of anti-war propaganda for American audiences, it is brilliantly done. American films on this issue are usually less than subtle so with that in mind, this movie is quite innovative. This has all the hallmarks of this sort of movie: ex-students who sacrifice themselves for the good of the country (confusingly they are anti-war but joined the armed forces) even the (air) cavalry were there but unfortunately were too late to save 'scalps' but did manage to wipe out all the `Indians'. It takes a different spin to pro-war propaganda and as a totally internal piece of American propaganda, I though it was very interesting and well worth watching. Quite brave really for Redford, true it did not go `all the way' with its anti-war message but it did get it across without alienating the `other' side. As such, it is a good political statement for US consumption.
Not perfect, but important none the less May 1, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Possessing Streep, Redford and Cruise (regardless of all sofa-jumping exercises) is an inevitable bonus for any film and one that is used frequently and wisely by the director, Redford himself. Additionally, the excellent Andrew Garfield is an ample support as the youth who has the potential to do, and achieve, anything. The dialogue is fantastic, the action is powerful and the pace is necessarily frantic, this being the reason for the rapid runtime (not an act of mercy as has been suggested!). Unfortunately, the film does become caught up in its own poetic message concerning the unnecessary sacrifice of war, but what is apparent is the careful accumulation and presentation of a variety of perspectives in a sensitive and thoughtful manner. This is a film that isn't perfect, but it is essential viewing for all who wish to retain a positively thoughtful approach to the various questions posed in our world.
Flawed but absorbing May 26, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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 is foolish. Artists of Robert Redford's generation won't be around much longer, and the film's critique of today's more shallow celebrities -- and the media that promote them -- is sharply telling.
In the end, I felt the material might have worked better as a play structured around the two central duologues, but it really did hold my attention with very good performances and a new kind of call to arms for America's youth.
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