Twice Born - Was vom Leben übrig bleibt (2012) Download Voll

A strange, volatile mix of history and movie cliches.. It's a wham-bam bumpy ride, great fun in the old-fashioned war movie tradition.. One odd movie, from the casting of its leads to its backdrop to its final twist.. Amounts to a noble failure.. A somber slog that takes far too long to reach its overwrought surprise ending.. The viewer has to slog through countless scenes of the two people sulking and arguing, while warfare is tastefully represented in the background.. You can enjoy U-571 as a ...

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Stop-Loss (2008) Online-Streaming-

[A] very worthy film.. . Anchored by deft performances from a sturdy ensemble, Stop-Loss provides proof of Peirce's sensitivity with actors as well as her interest in stories of American folk who don't often get the close-ups they should.. As a nation, we owe them more than they owe us -- as this painfully necessary and heartfelt movie makes abundantly clear.. There's a keen and ugly sense of anguish to Stop-Loss, a caged sense of powerlessness beyond political outrage that makes this film far a...

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300: Rise of an Empire (2014) Voll Streaming

We might look through the movie toward appreciating what the actual men went through, but that alone can't turn "Lone Survivor" into a satisfying movie experience.. Lone Survivor is a brutally effective movie, made by people who think that they're serving their country. But they're just making us coarser and more self-centered.. A plotless montage of anonymous bodies.. The film effectively assaults its audience almost as aggressively as its subjects.. Berg gives us a movingly bullet-chipped plaq...

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For Greater Glory - The True Story of Cristiada (2012) Download Film

In spite of its R rating and sometimes horrifying imagery, For Greater Glory seems to belong in the classroom of a lazy Sunday-school teacher rather than a movie theater.. The result is pretty much as forgettable as the Cristeros War.. The jamming together of so much history and melodrama makes for a handsome movie that is only rarely gripping.. This historical drama about the little-known Cristero War in 1920s Mexico is more educational than involving.. If Michael Bay woke up one day and said t...

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Wenn die Nachtigall fällt (2014) Online-Streaming-

A movie can have a superb story, amazing cinematography, and mesmerizing writing as well as directing, but without the talent to deliver it all, it finds itself lacking. Great!!. A movie can have a superb story, amazing cinematography, and mesmerizing writing as well as directing, but without the talent to deliver it all, it finds itself lacking. Great!!. A masterpiece of genre film-making, really worth to watch.. The excellent performances by the cast are also what raise this movie well above y...

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Das Leuchten der Stille (2010) Voll Streaming

Iffy scripting decisions can't thwart the romantic allure of this handsomely crafted, sincerely performed wartime weeper.. Lasse Hallstrom directs with a softness that makes even combat look tranquil.. Seyfried's performance is lovely. Her character may be sweet, but she's also marvelously direct, two qualities that Seyfried holds in balance perfectly.. What starts as a charming anachronism %u2014 pens, paper and the postal service in an impersonal digital age %u2014 becomes tedious as Hallstrom...

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Tigerland (2000) Film-Streaming

Tigerland lands squarely in the top tier of best movies about America's Vietnam experience.. . Even when the script overtaxes the allegory about how Vietnam divided a nation at home, Schumacher and the actors prevail by fixing their sights on what happens to men on that last stop before the game of war becomes a grim reality.. . Twice as long as it needs to be, but it is also only half the movie it should have been.. For those who don't mind being challenged, however, and are curious to see why ...

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