Alicia I love this movie so much

Steineded How sad is this?

Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

REV M VINCENT TURNER Sadly, Jeremy Irvine did not get top billing in the media, as did Firth and Kidman. Frankly, Irvine as the young Lieutenant Eric Lomax makes this movie.Irvine's torture and torment in the POW camp run by the Japanese during WWII is portrayed with shocking intensity. It is no secret to those of us who know even a smidgen about the Japanese in WWII how outrageously and ungodly cruel and inhumane they were.Colin Firth as the aging Lomax gives a good performance, but he is more reflective whereas Irvine as the younger Lomax is reactive, rebellious and exceedingly strong.Nicole Kidman has always possessed a special beauty. She portrays her role well as at first the lover and then as Firth's wife. She is pensive, concerning and very, very genuine in her role.I believe that Jeremy Irvine received lesser billing in written follow ups to this movie because of the celebrity of Firth and Kidman. That is sorely disappointing, because Irvine IS the core of this entire movie. I came upon this movie only lately, as a result of seeing Irvine in "The War Horse" and then "Stonewall". He is a stunning young man with extraordinary talent with uncommon acting versatility.

Reinier De Vlaam The railway man was the only solution that television offered that evening next to stupid game shows or standard, boring action movies. The description was not very hope giving (to confront his former enemy from a japanese war camp) and we feared some horror-torture scenes. We were blown away, I admit it...it's an intense movie that shows how extreme traumas can impact a human being. The torture scenes were limited to the amount needed to show the horrors that people can do to each other, the focus was constantly more on the mental problems and questions on how to handle life with these traumas and to confront them. It shows how horrible people can to each other but also how beautiful. And that war does not end in the minds of people when the fighting stops.highly recommended

grantss A movie on the depths of human behaviour, the limits of endurance, and on forgiveness. Good themes, but not well executed. The ending can be seen a mile off. It is made especially easy as the rest of the movie moves so slowly you have heaps of time to figure out where it is going.Pacing is also off. Moves incredibly slowly, then once the two protagonists meet, it rushes to a conclusion. Feels clumsy.Casting is...odd. Both the leading actors, Colin Firth and Hiroyuki Sanada, are too young for the characters they are playing, and look it. Stellan Skarsgard has far too much of an accent to pass off as an English/South African/whatever the hell he was supposed to be soldier.All put in good performances, but were badly miscast.Good performances too from Jeremy Irvine as the young Lomax and from Nicole Kidman.An okay, but not great, movie.

Mal Walker I was just a young boy in England during WW2 and when you are young perils and worries don't affect you the same as an adult with family. One memory for me of those days happened to be after the war, when a couple moved into the house next to ours. The husband had been a prisoner on the Burma Railroad and he would sit at his window looking down the street for most of the day. Rarely would he venture out in his garden, and as a young fellow, playing outside and climbing walls etc. I can still see him sat at the window. My father an ex-army man made an acquaintance with the couple and one day asked the husband why he was at the window so much. "I'm just waiting" was all he would say. Now I'm getting on in years I think I understand more what he meant. I think he was waiting for closure, something that the 'Railway man' achieved in this movie. I wonder if my neighbour ever found it?.