I like political thrillers but this one was the worst disappointment. The plot is awful: a typical bad imperialist US senator (Tom Cruise) with the mandatory Hollywood white teeth shares his obviously doomed to failure plans for the war in Afganistan with a borderline neurotic journalist (Meryll Streep) whose guilt complexes bordering on tears we struggle to understand. At the same time on a bucolic university campus an over the hill sociology (or is it history ?) professor (Robert Redford) tries to instill civic feelings in an a Bermuda wearing youngster with an IQ of 70 and a vocabulary of 1000 words (including: y'now and yeah?)who is supposed to represent the brightest among the brightest students (God help us if this is true). And at the same time again two misguided US commando troopers fight to save their asses against the baddies (Talibans). The acting is incredibly bad as well since not even the big names can save a script for the mentally challenged. And above everything else, it is booooring! Do yourselves a favour and avoid seeing it.
Review of Lions for Lambs
