Synopsis
A victim from World War II's "Death Railway" sets out to find those responsible for his torture. A true story.
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Cast
- Colin FirthEric
- Nicole KidmanPatti
- Stellan SkarsgårdFinlay
- Jeremy IrvineYoung Eric
- Hiroyuki SanadaNagase
- Tanroh IshidaYoung Nagase
- Michael MacKenzieSutton
- Jeffrey DauntonBurton
- Tom StokesWithins
- Bryan ProbetsMajor York
- 100
Observer
Wrenching, profound and beautifully made, The Railway Man is one of the stunning don’t-miss surprises of the still-young 2014. - 80
The Guardian
From time to time, the script contextualises a little clumsily...but the playing and pacing are terrific. - 67
The Playlist
For all the assuredness behind the camera and in front of it, there's very little in way of edge or even, surprisingly, emotion. - 67
Entertainment Weekly
Colin Firth smolders as the PTSD-riddled veteran (played in flashbacks by War Horse‘s Jeremy Irvine), and Nicole Kidman cries dutifully as his wife — but they’re both derailed by the movie’s tidy emotional resolutions. - 60
The Telegraph
The result is a film that does perfectly respectable justice to Lomax's ordeal, without ever making a strong case for itself as independently stirring art. - 60
Variety
There’s something decidedly old-fashioned — and also dull as ditchwater — about Jonathan Teplitzky’s retelling of events. - 60
Time Out London
In Firth’s every grimace and flinch you feel the torment of Lomax’s private world, but emotionally ‘The Railway Man’ feels trimmed and tidied up. - 60
Village Voice
It's heartening to have a tony war film about PTSD and forgiveness; it would be grander still to have one that dedicated itself more fully to examining the courage it would take to offer that forgiveness, rather than dash its energies upon the dreary cowardice of the crime itself.