JinRoz
For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!
Dorathen
Better Late Then Never
Humaira Grant
It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.
Marva
It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
cinephile-27690
I love Steven Spielberg, and while it wasn't bad, I didn't love it. He made Catch Me if You Can, which I told everyone who crossed my path about for months. This made me sleep for bits and while it was good, it didn't captivate me. The horse with the girl was the best part. Not his, best, not his worst.
paulclaassen
Nominated for 70 awards (including 6 Oscar nominations) this is a masterpiece. 'War Horse' is an amazing story of loyalty and friendship - between man and horse, and between horse and horse. The cinematography and photography is fantastic. It was engaging to see how the horse got passed on from one person to the next, and how they fell in love with him, and the effect he had on them. Steven Spielberg has a reputation for directing child stars, but I must admit newbie Celine Buckens, who played Emilie, was really bad and unconvincing. Fair enough, it was her first role, but still. I also found it annoying for the Germans to speak English with German accents. They should have spoken German, with English subtitles. I understand Spielberg wanted to make an all-English language film, but this rendered a lot of scenes unconvincing.Spielberg's war scenes are incredible and disturbing. A particular scene of the horse getting tangled in barb wire was especially disturbing. Then there was a fantastic scene where the enemy came together to save a horse. Truly inspiring. The film does get a bit sentimental at times, but in general this was really awesome!
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.
Charles Herold (cherold)
In the beginning, War Horse looks like a rather standard boy-and-his-pet movie, as a young man takes charge of and falls in love with a horse. This takes place in lovely farmland with picturesque people. It's good, especially Emily Watson as the mom, but it's not ultimately what the movie is.When the horse is sold to a soldier at the beginning of world war I, it becomes clear that this is a movie not about a boy's love for his horse but about the ways in which war destroys everything it touches. This is not a war between good and evil, but instead a war between human beings who have been born in one country or another. No one even seems to understand what the fight is about; they just fight because they are told to.The horse, Joey, finds himself on both sides of the conflict, and his story becomes the tale of the people whose lives briefly intersect with his. It is a way to tell a story in breadth, although for some the approach is too episodic.As of now, this is the last time Spielberg really showed off his visual flair. At first, the movie is just scenic, but as it moves into war, there are stunning sequences, like soldiers riding through a wheat field or a terrible act synchronized to the turn of a windmill blade, that remind you of Spielberg's films of the previous century.Well worth watching.
