
Unbroken movie review: where war movies have gone before
Jack O’Connell is the most exciting young actor to break out in years, and he makes this overly familiar film worth your time… if only just.

Jack O’Connell is the most exciting young actor to break out in years, and he makes this overly familiar film worth your time… if only just.
If only movies could be not tossed aside lightly but thrown with great force…
I am unaccountably intrigued by this…
“Don’t even mention Ringling Brothers. He hates those bastards worse than the Depression.” –Camel (Jim Norton) to Jacob (Robert Pattinson) about August (Christoph Waltz)
As cornball goes, there’s nothing cornier than running away to join the circus. And that’s why Water for Elephants works so beautifully: It doesn’t pretend to be anything other than an old-fashioned melodrama yarn-spun for as much emotion and tragedy and romance as possible.

Do not believe those TV ads that make this look like the goofy romantic lark of the holiday season. This is not a comedy, and it is no lark.