Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

Ang Lee is an artist - a true film innovator. So even when his reach exceeds his grasp, you can't help cheering his effort. Such is the case with Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, an Iraq war movie that two-time Oscar winner Lee (Brokeback Mountain, Life of Pi) has chosen to shoot in 3D with a frame rate of 120 frame per second, about five times the industry standard.

This is one of the worst movies you will ever see made with such talent. It rings totally false on all fronts. It's boring, zero story, terrible acting and dialogue, and the 3D and HDR is not even worth the material.

Somewhere in BILLY LYNN'S LONG HALFTIME WALK lurks a meaningful film about society's disconnect from the human costs of war. It all seems so tame for the typically visionary Ang Lee, who does his best to create intriguing tableaux from the alien terrain of Texas and Iraq. The script just doesn't cut the mustard, its precious few moments of philosophic or sardonic insight undercut by uneven performances, especially the lead's inability to deliver his lines in anything but a husky bedroom whisper.

(DREGS OF OUR FATHERS)

Unfocused, meandering drama is a strange candidate for Lee's groundbreaking increased frame rate photography, rendering the football scenes almost nauseatingly garish and compositions which prove 3D will never be especially viable for telling straight forward dramas. It also doesn't help that its observations of the tackiness of the 'glory' of war-time activities versus the actual situation on the ground are at this point pat and overdone. Alwyn and Stewart are cast standouts.

This has been shuned everywhere by everyone, but there's a mystery here, and I wonder if watching it as it was intended would make it clearer. Dismiss it at your own peril.

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk is a tech demo disguised as a feature film that the filmmakers thought they'd be able to sneak past us under the guise that, well, you can't hate a movie about heroic soldiers, right? Yes. Yes, you can. This is a technically inept movie featuring asinine dialogue from characters we don't care about and who do nothing of interest - with a momentum-challenged narrative dragging us through a nearly two-hour facepalm-worthy experience. What a waste.

I'm from a place where no one except for refugees have seen war or felt its immediate effects. I have never talked about war with anyone who's seen it. What I know I know from art, and there are certainly many war movies I like better than this one out there. However, I appreciate this film for how its grounded approach at times was able to bridge the gap between war and life as I know it. It is longer than it should have been, but when it shines it hits hard.

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1 sick scene but thats all

Well done. Unique story about our modern day military.

Consistently so close to achieving a much-needed critique of our commodification of patriotism and how it perpetuates the cycle of our incessant bloodthirst, but it never quite gets there (and frankly seems to stop trying in the third act). Some intense match cuts in here. High framerate is gimmicky but I feel like there's a few key moments where it works in achieving a sense of disorientation. Romance subplot is useless, but when is it ever not in films like these?

54.00

The trailer had me intrigued and resonated with me on an emotional level. The film itself did not live up to this fully, though I appreciate what Ang Lee was aiming for. The story, script and acting are mostly subpar, yet I still liked the film. The points it tries to bring across are good, although somewhat undermined by the blunt way they are stated. Further weakened by some clichéd characters. The style of filming is different and innovative which I applaud. Emotionally resonant, decent film

Wartime in the digital era.

Made for tv type of movie.

It's actually as bad as everybody told you it was. Not even worth watching just to see the 60fps HDR UHD.

Not my favorite movie, but one I'm happy to know in theaters at a time when American foreign policy is getting more belligerent.

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2016) lost my interest by each step.

tematik olarak bakınca bir iki yılla geç gelmiş denilebilir, ama bu haliyle gelmese de çok bir kayıp olmazmış zira savaşa dair gerçekçi bir bakış açısı var ancak bunları çok kabaca ifade ediyor. çekim tercihleri anlatıya hiçbir şey katmadığı gibi filmi dağıtıyor da. genel tonda kaçırılan ironinin yerini düşük manipülasyonlar almasa en azından katlanılır olurmuş.

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Lionized for an act of heroism (caught on video) in Iraq, Billy Lynn (Joe Alwyn, making a solid debut) and his company are sent back to America for a publicity tour, and as he prepares to take part in a Dallas Cowboys halftime show, his memories of the war and visiting his family blend with his current troubles. A pretty good critique of American culture is too often obscured by cinematic gimmickry, including the film's having been shot at 120 fps, and a script which is too often heavy-handed.