Reviews

I'm torn over this film. It was great to see a Steve McQueen film on TV other than "The Great Escape", or "Nevada Smith" and for 90% of the film he is his usual great self - but!

Steve was about 35 years old but the characterisation of Henry suggests a much younger man, maybe early 20's.

The girl portraying his daughter, at 8 years old, would also have been better as a babe in arms, or toddler.

I feel that they could have done more to show how the young Henry had been treated by the old lady to fully explain his obvious fear of her other than a few words spoken by another person.

Unfortunately, despite Steve doing a great job for most of the film, some scenes were horrendously poor! The fight outside the bar, oh dear! Also the fight at the cemetery!

One last criticism - definitely the wrong voice to dub for Steve singing!

Having said all that, on the whole, I enjoyed seeing Steve in the role.

I'd definitely say to watch it, it's good to see a less macho Steve!

We weren't sure whether to watch this or not because of the bad reviews. However, although the quality of the special effects may not be up to current standards, the story is emotive enough to make you ignore them. That this is based upon a real event makes it well worth watching. We would recommend it.

Visually this is a great film, the performances are strong, especially from Redford, Cruise and Streep, as you'd expect of course.

The dialog between Redford and Garfield, and between Cruise and Streep, is intense and particularly interesting if you're into politics.

However, the sound is awful!! You can hear Redford putting his jacket on, a noise much like the sound the soldiers were hearing, was constantly there, throughout the Redford scene!! I'm glad I didn't watch it in a cinema, the sound could have pushed me out!!