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NUMBERS
Box Office: $19,003,827
VHS Rentals: $8,390,000
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CONSENSUS
Well-made and solidly acted, Hart's War is modestly compelling. However, the movie suffers from having too many subplots.
CAST & CREW
Bruce Willis, Colin Farrell, Terrence Howard
Directed by Gregory Hoblit
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SYNOPSIS
Director Gregory Hoblit’s debut feature was the tricky courtroom drama PRIMAL FEAR. With his fourth feature, HART’S WAR, Hoblit is back with another. more...
MPAA RATING
R, For Some Strong War Violence and Language
RUNTIME
2 hours, 5 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Feb 15, 2002
Video: Jul 9, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
MGM/UA
GENRE
Dramas, World War II, Nazis, WWII
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Hart's War Site
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SOUNDTRACK REVIEWS
PARENTS EVALUATION
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TRAILER & MEDIA
NEWS ARTICLES
SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
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 "While the stoically delivered hokum of Hart's War is never fun, it's still a worthy addition to the growing canon of post-Saving Private Ryan tributes to the greatest generation."
-- Jason Anderson, EYE WEEKLY
"War may be hell, but Hart’s War is more like chess."
-- Todd Anthony, SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL
 "powerfully "captivating" first twenty minutes, but from there, meanders, searches under barrack bunks and into hollowed-out trim wood for a unified direction.
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-- Ross Anthony, HOLLYWOOD REPORT CARD
"The WWII drama is well plotted, visually striking and filled with enjoyably complex characters who are never what they first appear."
-- William Arnold, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
"The movie itself is far from disappointing, offering an original take on courtroom movies, a few nifty twists that are so crucial to the genre and another first-rate performance by top-billed star Bruce Willis."
-- Joe Baltake, SACRAMENTO BEE
"...breathes surprising new life into the familiar by amalgamating genres and adding true human complexity to its not-so-stock characters."
-- Rob Blackwelder, SPLICEDWIRE
"[E]ventually, every idea in this film is flushed down the latrine of heroism."
-- Kevin John Bozelka, MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
"This riveting World War II moral suspense story deals with the shadow side of American culture: racial prejudice in its ugly and diverse forms."
-- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH
"...while it is an entertaining, well-plotted film, there's something missing that keeps it from reaching that higher plane."
-- Larry Carroll, COUNTINGDOWN.COM
"If you think of the film at all after the lights come up, best not to contemplate the plot, which is littered with holes like P-51 rocket craters.
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-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
"works on the whodunit level as its larger themes get lost in the murk of its own making"
-- Laura Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
"There’s a great deal of corny dialogue and preposterous moments. And yet, it still works."
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
"The sight of the name Bruce Willis brings to mind images of a violent battlefield action picture, but the film has a lot more on its mind--maybe too much."
-- Michael Dequina, MR. BROWN'S MOVIES
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"A study in shades of gray, offering itself up in subtle plot maneuvers..."
-- Jeanne Aufmuth, PALO ALTO WEEKLY
"It's hard to know whether or not to recommend this film because for every thing it does right there's at least one and occasionally two things it gets ever so wrong."
-- Chris Barsanti, FILM THREAT
"Watching this film, what we feel isn't mainly suspense or excitement. The dominant feeling is something like nostalgia."
-- Jay Boyar, ORLANDO SENTINEL
"Hart's War seems to want to be a character study, but apparently can't quite decide which character."
-- Liz Braun, JAM! MOVIES
"Farrell ... thankfully manages to outshine the role and successfully plays the foil to Willis's world-weary colonel."
-- Laura Bushell, BBCI FILMS
"A perfectly respectable, perfectly inoffensive, easily forgettable film."
-- Shay Casey, DAILY-REVIEWS
"Opens as promising as any war/adventure film you’ll ever see and dissolves into a routine courtroom drama, better suited for a movie titled “Glory: A Soldier’s Story.”"
-- Erik Childress, EFILMCRITIC.COM
"You Know You've Watched Too Many Cartoons...when you see a serious
German Prisoner Of War movie and you're reminded not of Stalag 17...but of Chicken Run."
-- Rose 'Bams' Cooper, 3BLACKCHICKS REVIEW
"Starts out strongly before quickly losing its focus, point and purpose in a mess of mixed messages, over-blown drama and Bruce Willis with a scar."
-- Ryan Cracknell, MOVIE VIEW
"A compact story told with focus and assurance."
-- Mark Dujsik, MARK REVIEWS MOVIES
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ROTTEN 52%
Avg. Rating: 5.8/10 |
"This is one of those war movies that focuses on human interaction rather than battle and action sequences ... and it's all the stronger because of it."
-- James Berardinelli, JAMES BERARDINELLI'S REELVIEWS
"An earnest racial-issues picture that might have gotten respectful critical praise in a different era -- say, the '60s."
-- Mike Clark, USA TODAY
"Proves a servicable World War II drama that can't totally hide its contrivances, but it at least calls attention to a problem Hollywood too long has ignored."
-- Robert Denerstein, DENVER ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
"The movie worked for me right up to the final scene, and then it caved in."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"The movie gets muted and routine."
-- Justine Elias, VILLAGE VOICE
"Initially gripping, eventually cloying POW drama."
-- Jonathan Foreman, NEW YORK POST
"Worth a salute just for trying to be more complex than your average film."
-- Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
"A grimly competent and stolid and earnest military courtroom drama."
-- Owen Gleiberman, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"You'll get the enjoyable basic minimum. But not a whit more."
-- Desson Howe, WASHINGTON POST
"As an actor's showcase, Hart's War has much to recommend it, even if the top-billed Willis is not the most impressive player. As a story of dramatic enlightenment, the screenplay by Billy Ray and Terry George leaves something to be desired."
-- Peter Howell, TORONTO STAR
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"Instead of kicking off the intrigue and suspense and mystery of the whole thing, Hart's War, like the St. Louis Rams in the Super Bowl, waits until after halftime to get started."
-- Curtis Edmonds, TXREVIEWS.COM
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