A meaningful story of three veterans who come back home from the cruel battlefiled is directed by Neil Burger. They have to learn how to pass over the obsessed memories and move on. TK seeking confidence to confront his wife after the injures has negative impact on his sexual function and middle-aged Cheever attempts to pay for his son's college tuition.
As they hit the road, the scenes play out like TV sitcom vignettes with little holding the centre together. We find out details about the characters lives, but never feel we know them.
It feels like the writers were trying for dialogue that sounded natural and improvisational. Instead, it feels scripted and rehearsed. It's all phony balony!
This is not the worst of the Iraq-themed movies of the past few years, and it's possibly the best acted of any of them. But you wish the bonding of these three people wasn't diluted by the trite scenarios and artificial circumstances of their saga.
Like its lead characters, Lucky is wounded, lost, and impractical, but it has a messy, winning humanity and an agreeably leisurely pace that almost redeems it.
... captures the manner in which both the smallest and largest events on a road trip can build a sense of camaraderie among three strangers with very little in common.
Seattle Times
September 26, 2008
McAdams and Peña are affectingly vulnerable, while Robbins convinces as a family man with strong paternal instincts.
San Francisco Chronicle
September 26, 2008
The Lucky Ones has plenty of heart and courage. If it only had a brain ...
The Iraq war has thus far produced no truly memorable dramatic movies, as opposed to documentaries, and the losing streak continues with The Lucky Ones.
