MikeS

Lions for Lambs - Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Tom Cruise.
Big ideas and fine cameo performances end in an anti-climax because the movie parallels the state of America, which is also down. Maybe its five years too early for a more satisfying ending, but then Redford is getting rather old to wait another five years to make this. A serious movie which won't interest the shoot em up types, even though it has violence. The script is about disillusionment and failed ideals. Does America have the will to be the world's policeman, or has its gumption been undermined by excess and selfish gorging? As an intellectual exercise its good, but as a movie, after a promising start the ending fails to grip the viewer.

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