The Railway Man is a few things: a war movie (mostly), a love story (nominally) and one of those myopic Liam Neeson-style revenge thrillers that seems to coalesce in a bloody catharsis between hero and villain. This adaptation of a best-selling memoir by British Army POW Eric Lomax is the sort of the hybrid that we’d decry as head-shakingly implausible if it weren’t kinda, … [Read more...]