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Ben Foster, Samantha Morton, Woody Harrelson, Eamonn Walker, Jena Malone
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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Sometimes there comes a picture that makes you genuinely feel something and it is done by avoiding unnessesary explanations or sentimentality. An actor's picture that gives you an opportunity to see what an art true acting really is when you gather an intelligent and talented cas...( read more)
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)
For 10 years I have been saying that Ben Foster is a natural talent, probably the best one of his generation, and everytime he releases a film I go "maybe this is the one that puts him on the map"; they never do, but he still continues to amaze and engage me with every performance.
The Messenger is something nobody ever really thinks of. When you think of soldiers dying in Iraq and the men coming to their door to tell them that their loved one has died, most think of the grieving that the family will be doing but nobody ever thinks of "The Messenger". Someb...( read more)
Woody Harrelson (and Samantha Morton's new few extra sexy pounds) makes it worth seeing, though the movie isn't the greatest. Could be Harrelson's second Oscar nomination. Actually Foster's performance may be more praiseworthy, but his character is just unlikable. He lacks Ton...( read more)
