Tweetienator IAM AN ANTI-WAR MOVIE IAM AN ANTI-WAR MOVIE IAM AN ANTI-WAR MOVIE Well, the idea, the plot and setting had potential but failed - an anti-war-movie with (of course) good intentions but doing too many things wrong - some examples: the tank crew is able to hear the talking outside, the gunner is most of the time just looking in the close surroundings, (his aiming device is used as the camera- perspective for the outside) and he looks a lot into faces and dead bodies in close- ups (looong shots), which a real tank gunner who wants to stay alive would never do - in combination with ground troops he would look out for enemies in the mid- to the far range and not in close range (many times - even with zoom - the gunner just looks some yards ahead, which is really annoying because totally unrealistic: e.g. he watches the BACK of his comrades outside and how they proceed instead of watching the surroundings - therefore the idea of getting the outside world only through the perspectives of the gunner, driver devices etc. backfires heavily). Many pictures just scream (esp. the close-up into all those pain-torn faces - the woman, at least the director took the chance to show us some boobs ;)) - I am an anti-war movie, war is bad, war is cruel, lalala, to an extent that it is just getting ridiculous. Ofc a movie can or should have some message but maybe it shouldn't scream it out so loud one gets deaf by it (to the message). On top we get bored by watching the tank-crew endless debating and arguing over and over (soap-opera like). Verdict: at most an one-timer but imo far too artificial and unbelievable to be a good (anti-)war movie and a waste of a potentially good story/idea. Some directors should maybe watch a lot of the stuff on YouTube troopers in real combat publish from their helm-cams etc., before doing such an endeavor, or at least analyze the best movies of the genre. A movie the p.c.-crowd ofc tends to celebrate and decorate with awards. Myself had to use the last 20 minutes the skip button generously just to get the movie finished.

The Couchpotatoes I am normally not really big on war movies. Wars are just stupid. It doesn't matter which one, they are all stupid to me. Like most humans are stupid also. We're just the parasites of our planet. Destroying everything for stupid reasons. Knowing we are doing it but still continue doing it. Like stupid imbeciles that we are. But nevertheless the movie is well made. It reflects perfectly what it must be to be in the middle of the chaos of war. I'm not going take sides of whom is right or wrong because to me they are all wrong. Lebanon is mostly shot inside the tank, and you can feel the despair of the soldiers, the claustrophobia, the fear, the caused arguments about right or wrong. I base my ratings for this movie purely on the fact that I could feel their pain and misery. But I will say it again, wars are stupid and useless.

Tweekums The film opens with a new crewman getting into a tank; from that moment to the final scene the viewer is effectively trapped inside the tank with its crew. The only views we get of what is going on outside is the restrictive view through the gun sight. When the film starts the tank, call sign 'Rhino', is in Israel but soon it is heading north into Lebanon where its crew will learn what war can be like. They aren't really aware why they have been ordered to go to war and it soon becomes apparent that some of them aren't really prepared for what they will be expected to do... as the gunner learns shooting at people is nothing like shooting at barrels! Their first encounter leaves one infantryman dead along with an innocent chicken farmer. When they get to the town which they believed to have been cleared things get tenser as they encounter more resistance than they expected and after the tank is damaged it looks as if they could be trapped in enemy territory.Inside the tank the conscript crew are bickering before they have even seen action with the loader moaning about being ordered to keep watch. Then when the action does begin the gunner can't bring himself to open fire when a car approaches which leads to the death of a soldier. It is clear that none of the conscripts wants to be there as they question just about every order given to them by the commander and by the officer who visits them occasionally to give them further orders.I can't speak for the realism of the film, but as its writer/director based it on his memories of serving in a tank in Lebanon I can only assume it is accurate... more importantly it works as a film. By only showing us what is happening in the tank and the limited view through the site the viewer feels the claustrophobia more than if we had regular external shots of the tank. What we do see through the sight is a snapshot of the brutality of war; a soldier bleeding to death, a woman left naked after her dress catches fire and a maimed donkey dying in the road. Director Samuel Maoz does a fine job bringing his story to the scene; as do the small cast of actors inside the tank. If you are looking for a war film which is about people caught up in the war rather than about gung-ho action you could do a lot worse than this.

jimel98 ihrtfilms did a lovely job reviewing this film and I agree with every word. MY additional comments are based on the fact that I am a VERY nit-picky person when watching a film. I drive people nuts when I point out faults in this or that. With that being said, I can SEE where some might find fault with some of the particular errors in this film (i.e. the lack of helmets) but to be truthful, though I am ONE OF THEM, I was so caught up in the intensity of this film, I didn't even notice the irregularities.This film IS intense and very well acted. I literally was on the edge of the couch I usually lay back on while watching movies and it takes a fair amount to get me on that edge.Lebanon may not be perfect, but it's perfectly good. I could find no fault with it and didn't even try. It sucks you in from the minute it starts. The very fact that you NEVER LEAVE THE TANK is amazing. If you are even remotely claustrophobic, maybe you shouldn't watch this movie. You might be in your own home in a spacious room with windows and everything, but once you get into this movie, you feel like you're with the crew and they won't let you out until the end.I won't say more primarily because, as simple as the story line is, it's a complex movie and to say much, would say TOO much.