A Mighty Heart
Adnan Siddiqui, Alyy Khan, Angelina Jolie
On January 23, 2002, Mariane Pearl's world changed forever. Her husband Daniel, South Asia bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal, was researching a story on shoe bomber Richard Reid. The story drew...( read more
)
DVD Released: October 16, 2007
Recommend it
Add to Favorites
Your Rating
Top Flixster Reviews
-
March 19, 2009Michael Winterbottom is one of today's most underrated filmmakers, and this film is a work of extraordinary power. Angelina Jolie gives her best performance to date.
-
January 18, 2009"A Mighty Heart" tells the story of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped in Pakistan and beheaded on camera in early 2002. His wife, Mariane Pearl, wrote a book following the death, "A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband, Danny Pearl",... ...( read more )
-
August 18, 2008The most boring movie I've seen all year. I'm still happy to have seen it, but how long did they have to make this? If not for Angelina Jolie, this would never have interested anyone in the general public.
-
August 8, 2008"And kidnappers - their point is to terrorize people. But *I* am not terrorized, and *you* can't be terrorized."
A Mighty Heart wasn't an easy film to make this film work. Some stories don't need - or at least shouldn't need - to be put into a film to get its messa... ...( read more ) -
June 2, 2008The storyline is excellent and the acting is pretty good. I didn't like how the movie was put together, it wasn't as emotionally convincing as it could be. Overall it was good though.
-
June 24, 2009A not so good movie but watchable film, A Mighty Heart is not the film I was expecting to see, its more like a denunciation of a crime and some politics, the film may seem so slow paced but Angelina Jolie heartwarming performance make it acceptable.
Critic Reviews
View more
A Mighty H...
reviews at RottenTomatoes.com
September 21, 2007
Nigel Andrews, The Financial Times
September 1, 2007
Claudia Puig, USA Today
Emotionally and viscerally compelling and retains a suspenseful, edge-of-the-seat quality. full review
July 11, 2007
Armond White, The New York Press
Nothing in A Mighty Heart conveys the magnanimity of its title. full review
June 22, 2007
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
What is best about A Mighty Heart is that it doesn't reduce the Daniel Pearl story to a plot, but elevates it to a tragedy. full review
June 22, 2007
Pete Hammond, Maxim
A powerful,provocative and spellbinding film. This is a movie not to be missed and one that will be a force at Oscar time. full review
June 22, 2007
Edward Havens, FilmJerk.com
Every day, we are reminded how much of a great beauty Angelina Jolie is. But it's not every day we are reminded how much of a great actress Jolie is. full review
June 21, 2007
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
The immediacy of the setting, heightened by documentary techniques, makes this a chastening film, a portrait of the explosive new world in which we live. full review
June 19, 2007
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker
The movie, directed by Michael Winterbottom, lies about as far from the trials of Lara Croft as is cinematically possible. full review
June 18, 2007
David Edelstein, New York Magazine
A Mighty Heart is clipped, blunt, and grimly realistic. full review
June 15, 2007
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
The film's strict avoidance of exploitation and sensationalism only adds to the film's emotional impact. full review
Comments
Critic ratings and reviews powered by RottenTomatoes.com
Fresh (60% or more critics rated the movie positively)
Rotten (59% or fewer critics rated the movie positively)
All Rotten Tomatoes content is used under license from Rotten Tomatoes. Rotten Tomatoes, Certified Fresh, and the Tomatometer are the trademarks of Incfusion Corporation, d/b/a Rotten Tomatoes, a subsidiary of IGN Entertainment, Inc.
