Review – Lions for Lambs

Okay, I get it. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are being mishandled. A lot of good people are losing their lives in the field while incompetent bunglers in Washington play their stupid games and academics click their tongues about how awful it is. It isn’t that I disagree with the message here. I just didn’t care for the way it was presented. Robert Redford helms this cavalcade of Hollywood hand-wringing so obviously grinding a liberal axe that it’s automatically untrustworthy, no matter how sincere or even accurate I’d like it to be. The Afghanistan sequences were good in a casualty-statistics-have-names-and-faces sort of way, but the rest of it was stiff and preachy. See if desperate