Review – Breaker Morant

There’s moral ambiguity aplenty in this film about the legal repercussions for the horrors of war. The story is a true tale about three Australian officers who were court-martialed by the British Army during the Boer War for illegally executing prisoners. In the end nobody comes off especially well. The Aussies seem like basically honorable men made cruel by circumstance. The English come across as scheming politicians eager to sacrifice the rank and file to achieve their selfish ends. And everyone seems to have little qualm about lying under oath during the trial. You probably need to be in the mood for a military justice movie, but if that mood has in fact struck you then you could probably do a lot worse than this choice. Worth seeing