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Roger Ebert has a mixed review. The New York Times describes it as a "morose and willfully dewy-eyed tale" and says it's "a movie that wants to be everything and adds up to nothing. ''War'' is a film that tries to excel on several levels and falls flat on all of them." Rolling Stone closes its review with this:
Director Gregory Hoblit (Primal Fear) is merely arranging cliches in new patterns until the surprise ending blows enough pro-military fervor up the audience's ass to make Colin Powell call a halt.
Beware of the "Established Star paired with Emerging Star" movies. Avoid them like the plague. It's simply a Hollywood tactic used to either prop up a fading established star with one who's recently gotten hot, give a rising star a leading gig without the risk by pairing that star with an established talent who can open movies... or both.
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