http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/11/09/LIONS-FOR-LAMBS-A-Movie-For-These-Times.aspx LIONS FOR LAMBS may not be a movie for all time, but it certainly is a movie for these times.  It is actually three separate stories interwoven together as tightly as a girl’s braid -- about politics, about the media and about the responsibility we as individuals have as citizens in a democracy.  It is a serious film that is as exciting as any adventure flick; and if art is supposed to provoke debate, then LION FOR LAMBS qualifies as art. Sen. Jasper Irving (Tom Cruise) invites TV journalist Janine Roth (Meryl Streep) to his office. Irving, a graduate of West Point, is a Presidential hopeful. Roth once called him a comer in the Republican Party, and ostensibly Irving is repaying the favor by offering her a scoop about a new military policy in Afghanistan; small platoon-size groups of Special Forces soldiers are being sent to claim the high ground before the snow melts and enemy combatants can get to them. At the same time on the West Coast, political science Prof. Stephen Malley (Robert Redford) calls one of his students, Todd Hayes (Andrew Garfield), to his office.  Malley, in his late 50s and a Vietnam vet, is increasingly frustrated by the students he teaches.  They no longer have the fire in their eyes the way his generation did.  At one time, Hayes was different; he came to class passionate about the subjects being discussed.  But like many of his classmates, he’s become apathetic, less concerned with government than with how to become a wealthy investment banker.  Malley hopes to re-engage him. en-US Critics Rant info@criticsrant.com Subtext Version 1.9.4.0 http://www.criticsrant.com/images/default_gravatar_bullhorn.png http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/11/09/LIONS-FOR-LAMBS-A-Movie-For-These-Times.aspx 77 60 http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/11/09/LIONS-FOR-LAMBS-A-Movie-For-These-Times.aspx#2115 political stuff.....ugh. brokun1 http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/11/09/LIONS-FOR-LAMBS-A-Movie-For-These-Times.aspx#2115 Fri, 09 Nov 2007 12:22:18 GMT http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/11/09/LIONS-FOR-LAMBS-A-Movie-For-These-Times.aspx#2119 not really my kind of movie:) tinkluvspan http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/11/09/LIONS-FOR-LAMBS-A-Movie-For-These-Times.aspx#2119 Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:58:39 GMT http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/11/09/LIONS-FOR-LAMBS-A-Movie-For-These-Times.aspx#2123 Leftist drivel. It will bomb. It should have been called Two Marxists and a Scientologist. Lord Xenu RULES! BrackAttack http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/11/09/LIONS-FOR-LAMBS-A-Movie-For-These-Times.aspx#2123 Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:42:00 GMT