Review of Johnny Got His Gun (2008) by Thrash I — 26 Jun 2008

The best movie ever made. If there could be one movie to rule them all this is it.

This review of Johnny Got His Gun (2008) was written by Thrash I on 26 Jun 2008.

Johnny Got His Gun has generally received positive reviews.

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Y opinion--- Johnny Got His Gun (Johnny Got His Gun) is an American war drama of the most humanist kind, if any, against the absurdity of wars…

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I found the book laying in a pile a yard sale one morning. The cover of the book (the same as the movie poster) struck me…

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By Patrick B (1,076) on 08 Mar 2012

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By Michael Wilmington (1,474) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 16 Dec 2012

Trumbo's aim was a kind of proletarian poetry, but McKenzie's broad emoting has the deadly earnestness of a school play…

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By Shawn R (752) on 13 Jan 2016

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By Pablo G (434) on 23 Jan 2016

Knows what its going for and through it tells a unique and shocking story about war and death from the point of view of the person that was…

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By Orlok W (1,270) on 28 Apr 2012

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By Dennis Harvey (1,137) for Variety (12,700) on 11 Mar 2011

Ably filmed by veteran stage producer-director Rowan Joseph, Bradley Rand Smith's theatrical script provides a bravura thespian workout for…

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By Walter Addiego (380) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 26 Dec 2013

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