War Horse
War Horse
PG-13 | 25 December 2011 (USA)
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On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his father. Against the backdrop of the Great War, Joey begins an odyssey full of danger, joy, and sorrow, and he transforms everyone he meets along the way. Meanwhile, Albert, unable to forget his equine friend, searches the battlefields of France to find Joey and bring him home.

Reviews
Cebalord

Very best movie i ever watch

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NekoHomey

Purely Joyful Movie!

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Senteur

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

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Kaydan Christian

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

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dusserrelaetitia

This film offers a different approach of the war film, through the horse for whom you can develop sentiment and attachement. Sometimes the scene can be really hard at the psycological level because I think it's a film which can make us think on the humanity. In my opinion in this film the horse appears more human than the Man.

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nagsaptarshi

Let's get down to the point.Spielberg delivered another masterpiece on war with this beauty.Its gripping right from the beginning.The beautiful landscapes, the majestic horse scenes, the emotions in the house of the protagonists all set the tone for an epic from the first half an hour itself.Gradually the movie gets more tense and the grip tightens.What first appeared to be a nice, little movie on human-animal relationship gradually exposes the uglier sides of the war.And in the end, it strikes the right chords in your heart and make you shed tears.A lot indeed. The brutality on the animals towards the last hour or so was so unbearable yet realistic that you can not but clap when it all ends well our protagonist finally meets his friend Joey at the end after series of grueling experiences over a span of few years. Spielberg has never been so emotional in war movies thus far and you actually love the emotions.It is perhaps an emotional roller coaster of two and half hours through different countries, different stages of the war and differential treatments to the animals. The cinematography is brilliant.The same is about the actors.But the real show stopper is the brown beauty- the Horse Joey.You will definitely be a better human being after finishing this movie.Go and watch it if you have not yet done so.Another treasure in the famous trove of Master Spielberg.

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OzoFriendly

First off, I will say that I am perfectly happy to spend a couple of hours every once in a while having my emotional buttons pushed, and I'd suggest that no one can do that more reliably than Spielberg. I mention this only because no one should be in any doubt that, settling down to watch War Horse, that is precisely what will happen.I've read a couple of Morpurgo's books - he's very popular with my two girls - so I also know that the story would frame discomforting, even distressing, aspects of humanity in the context of an exciting and engaging story pitched at a young audience. I've no idea how much Sewell's Black Beauty influenced Morpurgo, but War Horse portrays the terrible ordeals animals suffered during WW1 with the same unflinching veracity.Spielberg (with John Williams very much in tow) takes it's audience from the mundane preamble to war in England, through the unspoiled fields of the first shocking skirmishes in France, to the appalling, desperate, deadly struggle between the trenches. There is no jingoism, no great heroism and no judgement. There is, as Kipling lamented, "but to do or die" and while War Horse is occasionally violent, it is neither gratuitously so, nor graphic.Unlike the book, which is told from the perspective of the horse, the movie focuses necessarily on the characters whose lives are touched by the horses and how profoundly they are affected by the war. These stories are poignant vignettes and the acting is generally excellent; I thought Tom Hiddleston and Niels Arestrup were particularly good. As protagonists, the horses of the story are granted a measure of anthropomorphism, and this quality is reassuringly restrained; I really liked how naturally the horses behaved in comprehensibly human ways without succumbing to uncanny-valley CGI.I am saddened that so many reviewers seem incensed that they have been manipulated watching this movie; I thought that was the idea. If and when I sit my girls down to watch War Horse, I certainly hope they are. As long as you can forgive the few minutes of excessive schmaltz Spielberg seems to think his audience demands at the end of his movies, War Horse is a very enjoyable and rewarding button-pusher.

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GUENOT PHILIPPE

I won't add much more to what the other viewers have already said. I won't say that's the best Spielberg's film, but not the worst either. That depends of what you are looking for. Every one's taste is different, that's the reason why no one thinks the same. No one on earth expects the same thing. I like this film which the scheme reminds me a sort of WINCHESTER 73 one, where a horse would replace a rifle...I watched a western series a couple of years ago, where it was about a gun, which owners changed from every episode to the next...So, I guess it could have been the same here. A TV series with a different owner of the horse for each episode. Of course, many details do not fit to actual events and accuracy is missing on many points. But you can't deny that you have here impressive battle sequences, and Spielberg had never made any movies about WW1 before. I found here the director's touch. History and moving story.

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