Director : Gillies MacKinnon
Producer : Allan Scott, Peter R. Simpson
Screenwriter : Allan Scott
Starring : Jonathan Pryce, James Wilby, Jonny Lee Miller, Stuart Bunce, Tanya Allen
And I thought it would be difficult to take all the thrill out of a war movie.
Regeneration manages to do exactly that by putting the setting at the end of
World War I -- not in the action, but in a mental hospital, where a couple of
British poets are being treated for shell shock. Poets. Shell shock. This is
not excitement -- and I'm a writer for a living! (The film is based on a true
story about a genuinely crazy poet.)
Despite the de rigueur love story and some gut-turning flashbacks, this
exercise in brown and olive green is pretty limp. Yes, war is rough. War is
hell. War makes people go crazy. We got it.
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" Grim "
Rating: R, 1997