(In an ideal world, the two will collaborate on a blistering satire of this hokum.)īased on Michael Morpurgo’s novel, which also spawned the Tony-winning play, the film follows the saga of Joey, a racehorse that’s trained for farm work under the loving tutelage of Albert (Jeremy Irvine) after Albert’s drunken father Ted (Peter Mullan) overpays for the animal at auction. “War Horse” is so plodding and shameless that I worried that screenwriters Lee Hall (“Billy Elliot”) and Richard Curtis (“Notting Hill,” “Love Actually”) either forgot everything they know about their craft or were paid handsomely enough to hold their noses and start shoveling.
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