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Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

This film offers a different approach of the war film, through the horse for whom you can develop sentiment and attachement. Sometimes the scene can be really hard at the psycological level because I think it's a film which can make us think on the humanity. In my opinion in this film the horse appears more human than the Man.

First off, I will say that I am perfectly happy to spend a couple of hours every once in a while having my emotional buttons pushed, and I'd suggest that no one can do that more reliably than Spielberg. I mention this only because no one should be in any doubt that, settling down to watch War Horse, that is precisely what will happen.I've read a couple of Morpurgo's books - he's very popular with my two girls - so I also know that the story would frame discomforting, even distressing, aspects of humanity in the context of an exciting and engaging story pitched at a young audience. I've no idea how much Sewell's Black Beauty influenced Morpurgo, but War Horse portrays the terrible ordeals animals suffered during WW1 with the same unflinching veracity.Spielberg (with John Williams very much in tow) takes it's audience from the mundane preamble to war in England, through the unspoiled fields of the first shocking skirmishes in France, to the appalling, desperate, deadly struggle between the trenches. There is no jingoism, no great heroism and no judgement. There is, as Kipling lamented, "but to do or die" and while War Horse is occasionally violent, it is neither gratuitously so, nor graphic.Unlike the book, which is told from the perspective of the horse, the movie focuses necessarily on the characters whose lives are touched by the horses and how profoundly they are affected by the war. These stories are poignant vignettes and the acting is generally excellent; I thought Tom Hiddleston and Niels Arestrup were particularly good. As protagonists, the horses of the story are granted a measure of anthropomorphism, and this quality is reassuringly restrained; I really liked how naturally the horses behaved in comprehensibly human ways without succumbing to uncanny-valley CGI.I am saddened that so many reviewers seem incensed that they have been manipulated watching this movie; I thought that was the idea. If and when I sit my girls down to watch War Horse, I certainly hope they are. As long as you can forgive the few minutes of excessive schmaltz Spielberg seems to think his audience demands at the end of his movies, War Horse is a very enjoyable and rewarding button-pusher.

If you've ever seen the movie "Forrest Gump", you are familiar with the concept of "the journey" being more than "the resolution" in film-making. Steven Spielberg's "War Horse" is based on a similar concept...only instead of a bench-sitting, story-telling Southerner, this time the journeyer is of the equestrian variety.For a basic plot summary, "War Horse" is a conglomeration of tales surrounding a rather remarkable horse. Raised by a young boy as a plow horse in an Irish farm, the horse eventually finds itself in the thick of World War I, where it changes hands on a number of occasions, building drama along the way.At its core, "War Horse" is two things:First, it is a World War I period piece, which it succeeds at just fine. The battle scenes are intense, the time period looks/feels about right, and the impact of the war on the surrounding territories is a nice addition that usually isn't covered in these sorts of flicks.Primarily, though, "War Horse" is a human-centered drama that tells its story through the travels of the horse. Every person who comes into contact with the horse has an interesting backstory of their own, and Spielberg does a good job of fleshing them all out and still keeping them relevant in the end.The only reason this isn't a five-star film is because some of the situations the horse encounters fall (at least in my opinion) widely beyond the realm of possibility (in favor of high drama, of course).Overall, "War Horse" is a solid film that will attract a wide variety of audiences. Whether you prefer action/adventure, romance, human drama, animal tales, or war stories, this movie has something you will enjoy. The film can also be enjoyed by all but the youngest of children (as the war scenes are not too graphic as to scare off grade-schoolers).

I mostly hated this because terrible cliché story line but one thing I cant stand anymore is that the story takes place in England?! Wtf?! I wanna see American war movies, not crap from another country. Why would Spielberg waste his time to make a garbage children's movie about this? When I first watched it I thought it was in the us in 1912. But then I saw the English flag and I immediately lost interest. Thats just my opinion though. Forgive me for loving this country enough. And ill stick to some good war movies that's actually about the country I live in. I cant stand watching war movies that shows the view of other countries. Maybe if this movie was about the us I might have liked it. But now its a disaster in my opinion no offense to Europe.