This was a horribly pretentious movie masquerading as film. I generally have a lot of respect and admiration for Robert Redford and I don't even disagree with the points he makes in the movie, but his method of delivery was just awful. It might have worked as a stage play but that kind of earnest hand-wringing doesn't translate well to the screen.A professor (Robert Redford) urges his recalcitrant student (Andrew Garfield) to not tune out the world around him. Meanwhile, a veteran journalist (Meryl Streep) interviews a slick politician (Tom Cruise) on his new plan for winning the war in Afghanistan.
That's all it is. People talking to each other the entire running time. I can deal with talking movies when they have something worthwhile to say, but "war is bad" isn't only tepid as a statement, it's juvenile. I would rather have watched 90 minutes of Robert Redford ranting about damn kids and their iPods and iPads and iPatches who won't get off his lawn and get jobs like decent folk. At least that would have felt personal.
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