Ultimately, the cruel juxtaposition of dark personal angst and glitzy red, white and blue exteriors provides the film's single ideological punch, thrown by Lee in spectacular style.
With the frame-rate experiment abandoned, Lee’s late-entry, reverse-engineered Iraq piece is exposed as a flawed work held together by Alwyn’s tender presence.
The real quality of Billy Lynn is in its storytelling and acting, not in the gimmickry of the cinematography.
Interesting, but not a film for which Lee will be remembered.
A sincere, thoughtful film that never catches fire.
Ang Lee turns in an uninteresting comment on the US misadventure in Iraq, with the story of a soldier whose PTSD is triggered at a Texan football game.
Ang Lee’s novel attempt at capturing PTSD mars this version of Ben Fountain’s novel about a young soldier with divided loyalties.
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