Hart's War, as you might guess, can get too earnest for its own good. But Billy Ray and Terry George's screenplay, taken from a John Katzenbach novel, is expertly plotted.

| Mar 7, 2018

Big WWII drama about honor, courage and sacrifice.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 24, 2010

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2008

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Nationality, race and politics clash in unexpected ways in this well-directed and acted but extremely old-fashioned prison drama that recalls genre film sof the 1950s and 1960s.

| Original Score: B | Oct 30, 2006

In the ever-increasing onslaught of war movies, it stands head and shoulders above most of the competition.

| May 26, 2006

This earnest WWII escape story throws in a courtroom drama, but to nobody's advantage.

| Feb 9, 2006

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

'Hart's War' is a perfect example of a film that remains anchored in mediocrity from beginning to end. It plods along like a chronic asthmatic, meandering to a conclusion that's both irritating and implausible.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 13, 2003

...Suitably gritty and intense...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 8, 2003

It's hard to know whether or not to recommend this film because for every thing it does right there's at least one and occasionally two things it gets ever so wrong.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 8, 2002

Engaging thriller combines military movie genres and succeeds as more than the sum of its well-oiled parts.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 7, 2002

Reaches for more than it can handle, but it's well-acted and earnest in its intentions.

| Nov 6, 2002

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 30, 2002

Paint-by-numbers claptrap.

| Oct 21, 2002

As old-fashioned as it can get, a throwback to cinema's Golden Age and a tribute to the flawed, guilty human beings we call heroes.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 15, 2002

As an American propagandistic attempt to market patriotism (or courage, or honor), it is arguably successful; by its own merits it is merely decent.

| Aug 28, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 27, 2002

The movie's surplus of male-fraternizing never conveys that these Americans are under imminent danger and stress.

Full Review | Aug 27, 2002

Hart's War is an absorbing courtroom drama that gives Farrell the chance to show off his star quality although the ending disappoints.

| Aug 17, 2002