![]() ![]() In the end, I think Spielberg, got it back asswards. ![]() And Liam Cunningham and Niels Arestrup are welcome sights anywhere. Casting Peter Mullan might have been a mistake as this movie was not built to contain his volatility but Tom Hiddleston is a perfect fit for this old fashioned production. Throughout, Steven Spielberg cares less about the human beings involved than his sweeping vistas, although there is one great scene amongst all of the carnage. Granted, it is set amidst the horrors of war which contradicts some of the intended high spirits. "War Horse" is an uplifting and sentimental story about a boy and his horse with multiple points of view. And then somebody shoots Archduke Franz Ferdinand which ruins everybody's decade. The only hope for retaining the family farm is for Ted's son Albert(Jeremy Irvine) to somehow get the colt, now named Joey, to plow the land, which of course he does. Ted Narracott(Peter Mullan) wins the battle of the auction versus Lyons(David Thewlis), his landlord, but it looks like he loses the war when it turns out he has no money left for rent. Eventually colt and mother are separated, as the colt is sold at auction. Let's start at the beginning with "War Horse," as a colt is born on a farm in Devonshire. The problem with people is that they have a poor standardized judgment and use their one-star and half-star scores in the unwisest of ways just to show how disappointed and "insulted" they were by an experience that, at best, can be described as average recycled sentimental material. I just wished that audiences did not fall so easily into the famous and now scientifically proven comparison bias, putting War Horse against Spielberg's great early filmography and rate this like if this was one of the worst films ever made, like if there wasn't a single redeemable quality in 146 minutes. The nod that I question, though, is the unnecessary orange-colored nod to Gone with the Wind (1939). In a movie where Williams' now beloved musical work surpasses the film itself, War Horse comes as a technically well done film that audiences love to hate because they were offered anything new, even if they were not offered something absolutely terrible either. Even if the film fails to impact and fills the story with underdeveloped characters and subplots, his now clichéd trademarks of "passion", "adventure" and "courage" are still present and by no means he is a filmmaker without a heart. Sure, he is a decaying director that, after more than four decades in the business, has emptied all of his talent in the feature films that he has directed and produced, but in no way this is the worst thing he has done. There is no need to exaggerate over Spielberg's typical overtly sentimental stunts in his "drama" stories. ![]()
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