War Horse: A film review

 - Vancouver, British Columbia - To start off, I must confess that movies about horses generally have the terrible disposition of being terrible, overly sappy and sentimental, since often the horse is given human attributes, albeit silent ones. Thus it must come as no surprise that when I first heard that Steven Spielberg was choosing to come back to the director's chair to make a movie about a horse, I felt reasonably concerned. Upon the premier of the second promotional trailer for this film, however, my fears were relieved by the realization that this was not simply going to be another dumb movie about a horse, but something more than I had imagined.

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