The Last Castle - Movie

[walkinghorse]

Just watched The Last Castle movie, 2001
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Castle

Strange movie with Robert Redford as a courtmartialed general in a military prison with a tyrannical warden played by James Gandolfini.

Don't know if it was the actors, Robert Redford a an Army General (just doesn't seem to fit the role?), or James Gandolfini as a Army Colonel, who seems to be a Tony Soprano in uniform, well sort of?, but was a strange movie to me, sort of like Hollywood goes to its version of fictional Leavenworth?

Head shot with a military shotgun from one of the guard towers down into the yard, must have been >50yrds, more like 100yds.?

Anybody else seen it or have any thoughts?
Never even heard of the movie until I saw it today?

 

[walkinghorse]

Just watched The Last Castle movie, 2001
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Castle

Strange movie with Robert Redford as a courtmartialed general in a military prison with a tyrannical warden played by James Gandolfini.

Don't know if it was the actors, Robert Redford a an Army General (just doesn't seem to fit the role?), or James Gandolfini as a Army Colonel, who seems to be a Tony Soprano in uniform, well sort of?, but was a strange movie to me, sort of like Hollywood goes to its version of fictional Leavenworth?

Head shot with a military shotgun from one of the guard towers down into the yard, must have been >50yrds, more like 100yds.?

Anybody else seen it or have any thoughts?
Never even heard of the movie until I saw it today?

 

[DCWilson]

Saw it a couple of years ago on DVD. Competently made and well acted, but to my mind not even remotely credible. It tried, I guess, to be a message movie about duty and honor under adverse circumstances, but didn't really make the grade. The most interesting thing in it was the trebuchet. How often do you get to see a movie with one of those? Not often, of course, but I would wager more often than you would find a warden who allowed the detainees under his supervision to build one surreptitiously and store it just off the main yard.

Hollywood. Reality. Take your pick.

DCW