Denzel Washington has two war films opening for Christmas — one written by a certain Will Shakespeare about a fellow named Macbeth in which Washington plays the title role, and another which he dir…
senior editor Dana Canedy, and its title is taken from the journal of love and advice written for his infant son while Dad is deployed in Iraq. Canedy since has gone on to administer the Pulitzer Prizes and become Senior VP and publisher of Simon & Schuster’s eponymous imprint.
Initially, First Sgt. Major Charles Monroe King seems pretty corny, almost too good to be true, with a chest so broad the Army might need to invent some new medals just to cover his uniform. Dana is a freelance journalist in Gotham, though it’s unclear why the character isn’t more explicitly rooted in the author’s actual career, as the man’s is.
As it is, the script bounces back and forth among several time periods, and ill-advisedly so, as the jumping around persistently disrupts one’s interest in the central characters’ growing relationship. This is unfortunate, as the best thing the film has going for it is the ever-rising temperature generated by the two leads. Charles and Dana are very principled people, and the latter’s father trained the younger man when he joined the Army.
But no matter how much heat and good will is generated by Jordan, Adams and young Jalon Christian, the latter very fine as their teen son in the final stretch, it’s simply not enough to prevail over the jumbled screenplay and the banality of the direction. Washington’s three previous outings behinds the camera —— while all entirely conventional, at least had enough going for them to generate a measure of interest and respect.
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