Plot
When a young soldier in Vietnam gets dumped by his hometown girl, he and his best friend decide to go AWOL and return to the States to win her back.
Release Year: 2013
Rating: 5.1/10 (1,179 voted)
Director:Danny Mooney
Storyline
When a young soldier in Vietnam gets dumped by his hometown girl, he and his best friend decide to go AWOL and return to the States to win her back.
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User Review
Surprisingly tolerable.
Rating: 6/10
With Love and Honour, Liam Hemsworth and Teresa Palmer bring some
Aussie flavour to the quintessential American staple: a love story set
in wartime.
The film tells the tale of Mickey (Hemsworth) and Dalton (Austin
Stowell), two soldiers who spend their week off from Vietnam flying
back to America, where Dalton plans to reunite with his best gal Jane
(Aimee Teegarden). Mickey, ever the adventurer, tags along for the ride
before getting bitten by the love bug himself in the form of Candace
(Palmer).
If the plot sounds older than time itself, it's because it is, but the
film remains at least a bearably enjoyable romp. In what proves to be
both a blessing and a curse, Love and Honour plays out like two films
in one.
In the first half, the acting on display is above par, and while the
script fails to account for some plot holes, it manages to avoid an
avalanche of clichés that films of this genre are typically so prone
to.
Disappointingly, the second half labours, jumping right back onto the
beaten track en route to a bland and entirely expected conclusion. A
decent option as a mind-numbing stimulus, watching this ninety-three
minute film will feel like…well, about an hour-and-a-half.
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