Storyline
A victim from World War II's "Death Railway" sets out to find those responsible for his torture. A true story.
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Cast
Nicole Kidman, Jeremy Irvine, Hiroyuki Sanada, Colin Firth, Ben Aldridge, Ewen Leslie, Stellan Skarsgård, Masa Yamaguchi, Tom Hobbs, Therese Bradley, Bryan Probets, Sam Reid, Charlie Ruedpokanon, Byron J. Brochmann, Shinji Ikefuji, Tanroh Ishida, Yutaka Izumihara, Keiichi Enomoto, Michael MacKenzie, Jeffrey Daunton, Tom Stokes, Akos Armont, Takato Kitamoto, Keith Fleming, Louis Toshio Okada, Micheal Doonan, Shoota Tanahshi, Peter Tuinstra, Shogo Tanikawa, Ben Warren, Yasuhiko Miyauchi, Jack McTaggart, Sarah McVicar, Marta Dusseldorp
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Reviews
100
Wrenching, profound and beautifully made, The Railway Man is one of the stunning don’t-miss surprises of the still-young 2014.
80
From time to time, the script contextualises a little clumsily...but the playing and pacing are terrific.
67
For all the assuredness behind the camera and in front of it, there's very little in way of edge or even, surprisingly, emotion.
67
Colin Firth smolders as the PTSD-riddled veteran (played in flashbacks by War Horse‘s Jeremy Irvine), and Nicole Kidman cries dutifully as his wife — but they’re both derailed by the movie’s tidy emotional resolutions.
60
The Telegraph
The result is a film that does perfectly respectable justice to Lomax's ordeal, without ever making a strong case for itself as independently stirring art.
