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From: movies, games, videos Category: Films Date: 07 September 2007 Time: 05:56 PM Review: Kiera Knightley is kind of mad and jerky and well suited to this posh role. The sound is like having your hearing aid turned up too loud, cigarettes lighting are like a rocket being lit. There are tones of classic war movies, like the English patient, but it never hits those heights. It's all kind of sad, and the effort of talking upper class strains both actors and audiences. There's something to the film, a genuine sadness, which is better than the not very well moulded story, the war seems like just a walk in the park which is thrown in to move along the plot. Yes, something, despite all the clattery missteps.