The ending ruins it

Rating: 9/10 (10 February 2019)

"Hart's war" tells the story of a group of American POWs that is one day joined by two black soldiers. Soon tensions begin to rise between them and the other prisoners and when a man is found dead, one of them is the first to be accused. A young law student is appointed to defend him in an improvised court room and what he finds out is rather shocking.
In a way this movie felt like a modern day adaption of "To kill a mockingbird". I liked how it portrays the tensions within a group of men that actually share the same destiny and fight for the same goal. Had the film concentrated on this injustice, it would have been tremendous. As it is, it is still a great mocie but one with a unberably cheesy and nonsense ending that makes vilains to heroes and changes the whole message of the story. I'm quite sure there are a lot of historical inadequacies within this production, but that was the real disappointment to me.
All in all I would recommend a watch nevertheless because it remains a film that is able to provoce a lot of emotions and anger and that deals with a topic that I feel is underrepresented within the genre.