Perhaps it is the premise of the 3 star “hero” concept. From what little I remember, this “hero” thing was contrived to give Redford as rebel against authority some legitimacy.
If you think about it, It’s like a veiled classic anti-war holdover from the late 60s peace movements. Redford as the ‘hero’ against establishment leading the ‘revolution’. Warden as the classic fake tiger (the establishment), all topped off with Redford’s self-sacrifice in the prison yard. I just didn’t buy it.
My basic problem with the move is the general-hero thing, especially for an actor who was never in the military. It’s just about as realistic to me as Sean Penn’s latest movie with him playing a super warrior spy type, all the while both of them vehemently anti-gun.
Yeah! I got this impression too. It is a propaganda movie that aims to tell young men “Don’t enlist as your Colonels are going to be C****cunts”.
Not to mention that one of the goofiest, liberal douche bags in Hollyweird, Mark Ruffalo, is his co-star in this movie.
Military prison run by nut. Honorable REDford disobeys orders from evil superiors. Military guards are murderers.
My rating: Better to find a freshly painted wall and watch dry