GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Frances Chung Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Staci Frederick Blistering performances.

poeticanarquica War Horse is simple. Don't have any kind of tramps, spin or turns in his plot, but is a great example of how Steven Spielberg is one of the best story tellers in the history of cinema. This movie is a powerful piece of feeling, and a prodigy of technical talent.War Horse is made it at the "old school style" with a marvelous photography, an amazing soundtrack, a camera that just work close to perfection; and all of this with no overdose of CGI like the films of nowadays. I' ve seen all the movies os his director and im pretty sure that this one have THE BEST SHOT ever made by Spielberg: The scene of the Horse running out by the battle field... Because is just AWESOME. And see this part of the movie could be a good reason that deserves watch his more of two hours, and all the respect and admiration for one director that made us love that horse, like if was yours. Beautiful film.

OzoFriendly First off, I will say that I am perfectly happy to spend a couple of hours every once in a while having my emotional buttons pushed, and I'd suggest that no one can do that more reliably than Spielberg. I mention this only because no one should be in any doubt that, settling down to watch War Horse, that is precisely what will happen.I've read a couple of Morpurgo's books - he's very popular with my two girls - so I also know that the story would frame discomforting, even distressing, aspects of humanity in the context of an exciting and engaging story pitched at a young audience. I've no idea how much Sewell's Black Beauty influenced Morpurgo, but War Horse portrays the terrible ordeals animals suffered during WW1 with the same unflinching veracity.Spielberg (with John Williams very much in tow) takes it's audience from the mundane preamble to war in England, through the unspoiled fields of the first shocking skirmishes in France, to the appalling, desperate, deadly struggle between the trenches. There is no jingoism, no great heroism and no judgement. There is, as Kipling lamented, "but to do or die" and while War Horse is occasionally violent, it is neither gratuitously so, nor graphic.Unlike the book, which is told from the perspective of the horse, the movie focuses necessarily on the characters whose lives are touched by the horses and how profoundly they are affected by the war. These stories are poignant vignettes and the acting is generally excellent; I thought Tom Hiddleston and Niels Arestrup were particularly good. As protagonists, the horses of the story are granted a measure of anthropomorphism, and this quality is reassuringly restrained; I really liked how naturally the horses behaved in comprehensibly human ways without succumbing to uncanny-valley CGI.I am saddened that so many reviewers seem incensed that they have been manipulated watching this movie; I thought that was the idea. If and when I sit my girls down to watch War Horse, I certainly hope they are. As long as you can forgive the few minutes of excessive schmaltz Spielberg seems to think his audience demands at the end of his movies, War Horse is a very enjoyable and rewarding button-pusher.

Diego Goncalves Since I was born I love animals, specially dogs, so every movie about some animal is special for me. War Horse brings to the screen a very beautiful history about a small horse who was bought to work hard in a farm for a very poor family. The casting is really good and the soundtrack by John Willians is amazing. Spielberg knows how to make your heart beat, it's a movie to feel many feelings, it starts with hopeless, walks in sadness, jumps for some happiness and finishes with overcoming.

GUENOT PHILIPPE I won't add much more to what the other viewers have already said. I won't say that's the best Spielberg's film, but not the worst either. That depends of what you are looking for. Every one's taste is different, that's the reason why no one thinks the same. No one on earth expects the same thing. I like this film which the scheme reminds me a sort of WINCHESTER 73 one, where a horse would replace a rifle...I watched a western series a couple of years ago, where it was about a gun, which owners changed from every episode to the next...So, I guess it could have been the same here. A TV series with a different owner of the horse for each episode. Of course, many details do not fit to actual events and accuracy is missing on many points. But you can't deny that you have here impressive battle sequences, and Spielberg had never made any movies about WW1 before. I found here the director's touch. History and moving story.