If you don't STAND for something, you might FALL for anything.
| Cast |
Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Tom Cruise, Michael Peña, Andrew Garfield, Peter Berg, Kevin Dunn, Derek Luke, Larry Bates |
| Director |
Robert Redford |
| Screenplay | Matthew Michael Carnahan |
| Music | Mark Isham |
| Cinematography | Philippe Rousselot |
| Editing | Joe Hutshing |
| Sound formats | Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS |
| Soundtrack | Available |
| SA distributor | Nu Metro |
| Made in | 2007 |
| Produced by | Andell Entertainment, Brat Na Pont Productions, Cruise/Wagner Productions, United Artists, Wildwood Enterprises |
Official Site | IMDB page | ScreenIt Report
Trailer: Medium
| Genre | Drama |
| Language | Strong, moderate frequency |
| Nudity | None |
| Sex | None |
| Violence | Mild to moderate military violence |
| Prejudice | None |
| Blasphemy | None |
| Drug abuse | None |
| Comments | None |
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Blood / Gore / Gross |
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Smoking |
Disrespectful / Bad Attitude |
Imitative Behaviour |
Frightening / Tense Scenes |
Jump Scenes |
Tense Family Scenes |
| Music (Scary/Tense) |
Music (Inappropriate) |
Topics to talk about |
| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Cape Argus / The Star Zane Henry  Lions for Lambs is good agitprop, but bad cinema. | 5 |  |
| Die Burger Jacques Liebenberg Tom Cruise en Meryl Streep blink uit. | 10 |  |
| Cape Times Carina Chocano Dull policy debate fails to deliver. | 5 | |
| The Citizen Peter Feldman A-list cast can't save this heavy-handed plot | 12 |  |
| BBC Nev Pierce It's too pious to be entertaining, too polite to be convincing and, like a weapon of mass destruction, takes a lot longer to deploy than 45 minutes. | 5 | |
| Chicago Sunday Times Roger Ebert here is a long stretch toward the beginning of the film when we're interested, under the delusion that it's going somewhere. When we begin to suspect it's going in circles, our interest flags. | 13 | |
| Metacritic.com 36 critics | 9 | |
| Rottentomatoes critics 146 critics | 10 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Feels like a disjointed series of lectures, rather than a sharp narrative. | 5 | |
What the People say | ||
| Internet 2800 Netizens So Much Less Than We Deserve | 12 | |
Average .. 43% | 9 | |