The Railway Man

3.00
    The Railway Man
    2013

    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

    Recommendations

    • 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.

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