Review – Hart’s War

Just about the nicest thing I have to say here is that I didn’t hate this movie quite as bad as I thought I was going to. And in all fairness I should concede that it’s probably time for me to stop watching Bruce Willis movies, especially any production that calls upon him to play a macho military type (especially a macho military type who turns out to be one of the big heroes). Willis aside, I’ll admit there might have been at least a small bit of potential to the notion of combining Stalag 17 with the courtroom drama from To Kill a Mockingbird. Sadly, once the humor is removed from the former source and the genuine human emotion sapped from the latter, all that’s left appears to be a lot of boring pedantry. A few years back this might have scored a couple of points for the quality of the production – particularly the brief but effective use of special effects – but ever since Saving Private Ryan I think audiences have just come to expect this level of production values from war movies. See if desperate