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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. This time the court is inside a WWII prisoner-of-war camp. The defendant is Lieutenant Lincoln Scott (Terrence Howard), a black officer accused of killing a racist sergeant (Cole Hauser). Scott's lawyer is Lieutenant Tommy Hart (Colin Farrell), a second-year law student at Yale. A U.S. senator's son, Hart was having a relatively easy war until he was captured, interrogated, and sent to Stalag VI. The camp commandant is the urbane, charming, and ruthless SS Major Visser (compellingly played by Rumanian actor Marcel Iures). The ranking American officer at the camp is Colonel William McNamara (Bruce Willis), and Hart is soon in conflict with him. When Scott is accused of murder, McNamara insists that the prisoners should hold a court martial, and he appoints Hart counsel for the defense. At the court martial, Hart finds his client is being railroaded, although he gets help from unexpected quarters. Intricately plotted by scriptwriters Billy Ray and Terry George, and filmed by Hoblit with his accustomed attention to detail, HART'S WAR is a devious and absorbing courtroom/POW drama.
Army Col. William McNamara is imprisoned in a brutal German POW camp. Still, as the senior-ranking American officer, he commands his fellow inmates, keeping a sense of honor alive in a place where honor is easy to destroy, all under the dangerous eye of the Luftwafe vetran Col. Wilhelm Visser. Never giving up the fight to win the war, McNamara is silently planning, waiting for his moment to strike back at the enemy. A murder in the camp gives him the chance to set a risky plan in motion. With a court martial to keep Visser and the Germans distracted, McNamara orchestrates a cunning scheme to escape and destroy a nearby munitions plant, enlisting the unwitting help of young Lt. Tommy Hart. Together with his men, McNamara uses a hero's resolve to carry out his mission, ultimately forced to weigh the value of his life against the good of his country.Read full review
PLOT: A GERMAN POW camp in December 1944 has the Americans fighting each other at times when 2 black american flyers end at at the camp~
BETTER than it sounds~ Colin Farrell is outstanding as Lt. Hart who just arrived at the camp who cracked during his interrogation by the Nazis and lies to the American Colonel (Bruce Willis) who knows he lied~ and puts him in a non officers barricks~ soon 2 downed black american flyers are added to the same barricks and biggots make every one miserable. when one BLACK is shot after a weapon is found in his bunk~ soon the last man is on trial for killing the head bigot~ plenty of twists and turns here~ when the Nazi commandant gives a proceedure manual to Lt. Hart which aids in the "mock" murder trial for the accused black soldier~ the real theme here is black/white racial relations in WW2 but the plot takes a big twist when Hart discovers the Colonel as a 'hidden agenda' himself~ which totally turns this around~ I will not reveal the end but this movie is worth the watch once~ Willis is good as the Colonel we are not sure we can trust~ and FARRELL as Hart is excellent as the defense lawyer goes all out to defend an innocent black man~ great sets right down to the grungy uniforms the ONLY thing lacking is the white breathe "smoke" we should have seen when it really as cold as this movie implies~ I GIVE IT 4 OUT OF 5 FOR GOOD PLOT FOLLOWED UP WITH VERY GOOD CAST AND PLOT~
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Good movie - Better book. Having read the book, I wanted to see the movie. EBay offered it immediately. Although Bruce (Die Hard) Willis is not my favorite actor, he does an adequate job. Sadly, the screenwriters who are incapable of translating a book into a script feel as though they must "leave their mark" by eliminating critical components in order to meet Hollywood's 90-minute packaging requirements and spinning parallel, but unrelated plots. If you want a pasteurized entertaining evening, watch the movie. If you want a gripping novel that leaves a lump in your throat, read the book! The mind has a better lens than the camera.