Being a history buff I thought this movie may interest me. The history lesson doesn't happen. Instead we drag along endlessly in a, guess what, children's story. Complete with the horse being made emotionally anthropomorphic complete with heroic actions for his horse friend. I gave it a 4 rather then a 1 or 2 simply because it has the well done Spielberg landscape shots. The story line had me positively bored to tears. Perhaps because I'm not a horse lover I couldn't connect. Basically the entire movie is the horse, Joey, moving from English people, to German people, to French people, back to German people, and eventually back to English people. Everyone quickly recognizes what a truly special horse Joey is. In a nutshell, every action scene in the movie you will have seen in an advertisement.
Review of War Horse
