Release Date: October 17, 2014 Director: David Ayer Producer: Bill Block, David Ayer, Ethan Smith, John Lesher Studio: Columbia Pictures Starring: Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Michael Peña, Jon Bernthal, Jason Isaacs, Scott Eastwood, Kevin Vance, Daniel Betts Genre: Drama Running Time: 135 minutes
Friday, November 7, 2014 9:47:26 AM | (Age Not Specified)
This was a bit of a weird movie.
Okay, it was a WWII movie, so there's lots of battle action (this time with people in tanks). So it delivered on that.
But ... For some reason, the movie sets itself in April 1945 which is almost at the very end of the war. Despite the movie's brief suggestions to the contrary, in reality the Americans and British moved across Germany facing very little resistance. And, of course, the movie could have been set in other situations (breakout at the Normandy landings, Battle of the Bulge) where there still was a lot of German resistance. The only reason I can think that they picked April 1945 is they wanted to have the tank crew in an Iraq-like setting w
Tuesday, November 4, 2014 5:07:56 PM | (age group: 18-24)
No story, static characters that you can care for, and a lot of "Murican" bull of heroism.
Nice tanks though as they were still functional museum pieces.
Monday, November 3, 2014 9:35:57 PM | (age group: 2-17) | M
Even when the tempo slowed the intensity and alertness remained. A well made well acted movie 3 dimensional in it's illustrations of life and death. There's more than enough offered here for all to take away something different.
