Regie:
William FriedkinScenario:
Stephen GaghanMuziek:
Mark IshamActeurs:
Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L. Jackson, Guy Pearce, Ben Kingsley, Bruce Greenwood, Anne Archer, Blair Underwood, Philip Baker Hall, Dale Dye, Amidou, Nicky Katt (meer)Samenvattingen(1)
Hayes Hodges, een Vietnam-veteraan die nu advocaat is, moet de kolonel Terry Childers verdedigen die beschuldigd wordt van het starten van een incident dat enkele doden tot gevolg had. Hodges heeft geen keus, want Childers heeft in Vietnam het leven gered van Hodges. (Independent Films)
Recensie (1)
William Friedkin hasn’t forgotten how to make films, and this piece can be considered fairly good. The screenplay is quite solid and there isn't as much pathos and pro-Americanism as I expected, which is obviously good. The dialogues are very strong, especially when it comes to the courtroom, and the plot is fast-paced, dynamic, and tense. The action scenes are sometimes quite unrealistic and the war atmosphere is unconvincing (especially the opening action in Vietnam), but the main point of the film – the massacre in Yemen – is surprisingly skillfully shot, and I was particularly impressed by certain camera tricks, such as the view through the gun's sights.
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