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Release Date: Feb 15, 2002; Rated: R; Video Release Date: Jul 09, 2002; Genres: Drama, War; With: Colin Farrell and Bruce Willis; Distributor: MGM
HART'S WAR Bruce Willis, Colin Farrell (2002, MGM, 125 mins., R, also on DVD) As the highest-ranking Yank in a Nazi POW camp, Willis gives one of his clenched, stoic, ''serious actor'' performances. But even that is wasted motion in a genre muddle that starts in Stalag 17 mode, slaps on a simplistic racial conflict, then mutates into a speechifying courtroom drama, before closing with a tepid Great Escape action-flick finale. The credits list two screenwriters, but this feels like the work of twice that many -- all trying to tell a different story.


Posted Jul 12, 2002
 

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