The Lucky Ones

The Lucky Ones is a not so timely anti-war movie about three veterans returning from Iraq to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives. Tim Robbins, Rachel McAdams, and Michael Pena lead the cast of this movie with an agenda that has become oh so typical of Hollywood. I am hopeful that Hollywood will take a cue from President Obama and his “change we need” mantra. I don’t know if he will be successful but he is at least trying to package it nicely.






This movie is just short of a complete mess. No matter which side of the line you stand in our political nightmare this is just bad movie making. The above mentioned stars are all very talented and have expansive character range, but they have nothing to work with here. The writing gives them nothing to work with and they are left trying to clean up the mess.

Quite simply put, this is a “road trip” movie with three veterans that are portrayed as bumbling fools. The most inexplicable events happen minute after minute, and it becomes so utterly unbelievable and contrived that I was left hiding my head in a pillow due to the embarrassment. Each and every anti-war point is raised in the most obvious way, could this have been written by school children?

I am already upset at myself for talking this long about it so I am going to wrap it up.

2 stars, and the only reason it didn’t receive a 1 is because of the cast. They gave it a shot and I give them credit for not mailing it in. I wonder what each of them did to get saddled with this. Or, perhaps they are so ultra liberal (ahem…Mr. Robbins) that they just HAD to.

If you have nothing else to do on a Friday evening then take a nap. Don’t bother. Play Wii, or stare at the wall like Putty. You will get just as much enjoyment.