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Name: Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Released: 2016-11-9
Cast: Joe Alwyn, Kristen Stewart, Chris Tucker, Garrett Hedlund, Makenzie Leigh

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

R
1h 53m
2016

44%

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Three-time Academy Award® winner Ang Lee brings his extraordinary vision to Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, based on the widely-acclaimed, bestselling novel. The story is told from the point of view of 19-year-old private Billy Lynn (Joe Alwyn) who, along with his fellow soldiers in Bravo Squad, becomes a hero after a harrowing battle in Iraq and is brought home temporarily for a victory tour. Through a sequence of flashbacks the truth about what really happened is revealed – contrasting the realities of the war with America’s distorted perceptions of heroism. Co-starring Kristen Stewart, Chris Tucker, Garrett Hedlund, with Vin Diesel, and Steve Martin.

Director:

Ang Lee

Producer:

Ang Lee, Marc Platt, Rhodri Thomas, Stephen Cornwell

Writer:

Jean-Christophe Castelli

Cast:

Joe Alwyn, Kristen Stewart, Chris Tucker, Garrett Hedlund, Makenzie Leigh, Vin Diesel, Steve Martin, Brian "Astro" Bradley, Arturo Castro, Ismael Cruz Cordova, Barney Harris, Beau Knapp, Mason Lee, Ben Platt

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

44%

Critics Consensus: Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk has noble goals, but lacks a strong enough screenplay to achieve them -- and its visual innovations are often merely distracting.

Reviews

Every Movie Has a Lesson

Don Shanahan

Unfortunately, any resonance is lost under a mountain of unimportant minutiae stealing air time and headspace.

Ultimately, Ang Lee delivers a smart war film that offers a great deal of empathy to its social actors while still remaining critical of imperialist impulses in American culture.

A somewhat engaging consideration of how different people view the idea of a soldier or war itself.

Stripped of the tech wizardry, its an awkward moral maze with a lot to show but very little to say.

February 21, 2022

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