For a time, smart US pop culture writer Joe Reid ran an elegantly simple Tumblr titled This Had Oscar Buzz an online cemetery of sorts for films that enjoyed fleeting, dolefully unfulfilled awards hype before anyone actually saw them. (I'm partial to the acronym THOB.) Released in January to a chorus of polite silence, Jonathan Teplitzky's prisoner-of-war drama The Railway Man (Lionsgate, 15) is a THOB film of the first order, which isn't to say that it's at all bad: it's dun-hued and solidly unfashionable, the cinematic equivalent of sensible shoes.
Colin Firth is comfortingly cast as Eric Lomax, the former British army officer on whose bestselling autobiography the film is based. Still traumatised years later by second world war experience in a Japanese POW camp, he seeks out his chief captor (Hiroyuki Sanada) in an attempt to gain closure.
Continue reading...Source: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/may/04/railway-man-like-father-like-son-dvd-reviews-guy-lodge
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