Artistic License Films
Reviewed for Arizona Reporter by Harvey Karten
Grade: C+
Directed by: Lexy Lovell, Michael Uys
Written By: Lexy Lovell, Michael Uys
Cast: Michael McPhearson, Perry Parks, Will Williams, Edward Wood, Jimmy Massey
Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 10/29/09
Opens: November 11, 2009
We don.t expect a documentary on the subject of war to be as exciting as a dramatized version: think .Apocalypse Now,. and the comical, new .The Men Who Stare at Goats. as just two of the many examples of the latter. .The Good Soldier. is not the exception that proves this rule. An unexciting doc stating, for the most part, things that we all know.coupled with talking heads who come up short on the charisma chart.makes Lexy Lovell and Michael Uys. piece well-meaning enough. But given its archival clips from U.S.-fought wars beginning with World War II that hardly overwhelm the audience with the horrors of battle,...
Reviewed for Arizona Reporter by Harvey Karten
Grade: C+
Directed by: Lexy Lovell, Michael Uys
Written By: Lexy Lovell, Michael Uys
Cast: Michael McPhearson, Perry Parks, Will Williams, Edward Wood, Jimmy Massey
Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 10/29/09
Opens: November 11, 2009
We don.t expect a documentary on the subject of war to be as exciting as a dramatized version: think .Apocalypse Now,. and the comical, new .The Men Who Stare at Goats. as just two of the many examples of the latter. .The Good Soldier. is not the exception that proves this rule. An unexciting doc stating, for the most part, things that we all know.coupled with talking heads who come up short on the charisma chart.makes Lexy Lovell and Michael Uys. piece well-meaning enough. But given its archival clips from U.S.-fought wars beginning with World War II that hardly overwhelm the audience with the horrors of battle,...
- 10/31/2009
- Arizona Reporter
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