A Mighty Heart

The story of Daniel Pearl is a tragic one. I remember following it all on the news until the fateful day of his horrific beheading. Just imagining what his family and friends could have been thinking during the whole ordeal... Read more at imdb.com

The movie is brilliant. Michale Winterbottom has done an amazing job to give the real feel to the movie. It is not a glossy painted Hollywood drama. Every character has done justice to their role, specially Angelina Jolie, who was... Read more at imdb.com

A Mighty Heart - Mariane Pearl (Angelina Jolie) embarks on a frantic search to locate her journalist husband, Daniel (Dan Futterman), when he goes missing in Pakistan.The acting is good, with Jolie at the top of the list of course.... Read more at imdb.com

Telling the truth is generally considered to be the first step on the path to righteousness. It brings redemption to some and relieves the guilt of others. Many people have a hard time accepting the truth when faced with it.... Read more at imdb.com

It's a moving film, and Jolie plays the wife of the assassinated journalist well. She'll probably win a deserved nod for an award. But the script falls short in a most important way. Daniel Pearl was not kidnapped and beheaded... Read more at imdb.com

This is one of the more intelligent and well constructed movies of 2007 thus far. Touching on the human element as it collides with the unpleasant realities of hot-bed issues including politics and religion, the brutality and evil this story... Read more at imdb.com

This is an intimate film. Basically a love story set in the political wreckage after the attack on the World Trade Center. As such, we don't get much detail about the different factions in Pakistan or who is "good" or... Read more at imdb.com

Let me start by stating one obvious fact. This is by far Jolie's best performance yet. Those of you who thought she was great in "Girl Interrupted" just wait until you see her in "A Mighty Heart." She has everything... Read more at imdb.com

Despite the controversy amongst IMDb users concerning Academy Award Winner Angelina Jolie's ability to play a French woman of Afro-Cuban and Dutch ancestry, the truth is that she does a tremendous job despite her minimal screen time. In some of the... Read more at imdb.com

MIGHTY HEART is an important film with a tremendous performance from Angelina Jolie and a superb cast that joins her on screen in a story that captures the fear of terrorism which we live with today. From the first frame... Read more at imdb.com

The twisting of narrative perspective that pushes the missing man's wife so insistently into the foreground makes A Mighty Heart a mighty challenge. The shaping and shading that turned Mariane's book, subtitled The Brave Life and Death of My Husband, Danny Pearl, into A Mighty Heart, the noble project starring Angelina Jolie, qualifies in itself, I suppose, as a kind of media success. ... Full Review

A Mighty Heart" is a good and realistic looking production with its on location shooting and art direction that captures the cramped facilities of a third world CNN outlet. What could have been a great film, overall, is just good ... Full Review

A feel-good movie, the swiftest kind to sell, it is not. That a story whose ending is widely known -- Pearl was kidnapped and beheaded by Islamic insurgents in 2002 -- still manages to be utterly gripping is due to a buildup of tense small moments, such as pals laughing over a hearty meal oblivious to Mariane's anxious looks as the hour grows late. ... Full Review

Winterbottom does a wonderful job of telling the story in an almost documentary fashion with a reality feel to it. Obviously, the truth will never be surely known but the movie handles the sensitive issue well. ... Full Review

Director Michael Winterbottom and writer John Orloff have made a riveting, suspenseful and poignant movie out of the events surrounding this act of Islamic terrorism even though the tragic ending is well-known. Jolie is not known for finely nuanced performances but this changes all that. ... Full Review

Based on a true and tragic story of the life of a slain French journalist Daniel Pearl who was kidnapped by the militants in Pakistan and later beheaded, the movie Mighty Heart is a reminder of those headlines of world... ... Full Article

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Perhaps there isn't a point in discussing the story of the film, which by now everyone (of course people who matter) knows by heart. In a nutshell, the film opens with Daniel (Dan Futterman) not returning home on the night... ... Full Article

The 2008 Spirit Award Nominations have been announced , and what is most interesting is the amount of nominated films that have either not been seen in a theatrical release yet, or are currently in a limited run. ... Full Article

The beheading of Daniel Pearl was one of the more horrific images from the aftermath of the second Gulf War.I remember watching the grisly video wondering about the kind of people that would commit such a violent act. ... Full Article