the railway man movie review

Overall its a good film with a great performance by Jeremy Irving that shows love and compassion can overcome just about everything including mans inhumanity to man. The railway man is an emotional and beautifully portrayed story of Eric Lomax a Scottish officer who was taken prisoner in Singapore and worked as an engineer on the construction of this.

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The result shown in THE RAILWAY MAN is healing.

. April 17 2014. When war vetrailway fanatic Eric Firth meets Patti Kidman on a train love blossoms. In The Railway Man Jonathan Teplitzky and screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce give a much more sobering look at those hardships through the eyes of a man who experienced it.

Full Review Original Score. Directed by Jonathan Teplitzky The Railway Man focuses on Erics late-life marriage suggesting it was love that pressed him to finally deal with his war experience. Its easier to like The Railway Man than it is to love it.

The Railway Man remains a moving film with strong performances but its intentions are perhaps better than its delivery. THE RAILWAY MAN warrants an extreme caution from Movieguide only because of the Japanese atrocities and a suicide. Traditional in tone and.

In addition to sloggy pacing that emphasizes modern-day Erics moping and Pattis angelic support The Railway Man suffers from a script that places dramatic emphasis in all. Only then does she discover he is haunted by his past as a prisoner of the. Despite solid performances by Colin Firth Nicole Kidman and Stellan Skarsgard and a handsome cinematic.

35 Alexa Dalby Dog and Wolf. That modesty prevents The Railway Man from turning mawkishly sentimental once Lomax embraces the concept of forgiveness and you can believe its possible. Eric Lomaxs story of life and death on the Burma railway gets another retelling although it does get a little muddled writes Mark Kermode.

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