Ben Foster, Samantha Morton, Woody Harrelson
In his most powerful performance to date, Ben Foster stars as Will Montgomery, a U.S. Army officer who has just returned home from a tour in Iraq and is assigned to the Army’s Casualty Notification se...( read more
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Stats: 76 reviews
The Messenger is a limited release movie that covers a potentially difficult subject.
What becomes a good movie about the two characters starts out a cheesed up, run of the mill film that seems to try distancing itself from the audience with standard "soldier scenes." They thro...( read more)
i love a good miltry flim
and this one sertently
dilveres on that . i found
it to be a buetful complax
flim with great preformas
espacil by ben foster. i
know movie like this one
are not populer right now
but i really liked it.
Opened 2009 Woodstock FIlm Festival to rousing reviews and applause. Best Q&A ever...
Messengers with the worst possible message, they nonetheless manage to be human and alive .... In a film that itself bears sad tidings about the costs of war, that is an affirming, even an inspiring, ... full review
The Messenger, showing humanity under siege, opens wounds inflicted by the Iraq War -- not on the battlefield but in the hearts of the families of soldiers who never made it back home. full review
So bungled up with fashionable ambivalence about the Iraq War that every single behavioral detail is not just prejudicial but wrong. full review
Moverman's scripting is subdued and emotionally authentic. full review
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