The Messenger

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First time viewed: Yes
Current Release: Yes
Watched With: Myself

Don't shoot him!

I've been a big Ben Foster fan for a while now, he's pretty much always the best thing in each movie he's in. This is no exception.

A movie about people being informed their relatives have died in combat. You know it's going to be a tough watch and it is. But the way the relationship between Ben Foster and Woody Harrelson develops is the main focus of the drama. They are each trying to cope with their own grief and do so in different ways.

Samantha Morton is on hand to provide a strange sort of romantic interest but I was never really as interested in that storyline as the two guys.

This is an interesting angle on the whole consequences of war film. It's not preachy but it gets its message across loud and clear.