Three star

IMAGINE it's 1944, you're a pen pusher, still sitting behind a desk having seen no action as the Second World War comes to an end.

And just as your mind dreams of being a frontline hero, the man you're driving back to base has his head blown off at a German roadblock and suddenly you're stripped, interrogated for information and pushed into a concentration camp as a POW.

Hart's War follows the story of Lt Thomas Hart (Colin Farrell) a POW, but, unlike many others, has to overcome his allies more than the Germans in the camp.

Bruce Willis also appears in the film as Col William McNamara, who will do everything to get out of the camp and carry on fighting on the battlefield, even let his own men die. The only downside with this movie is that it's American - which movies aren't these days? But even the German officers sounded American, which slightly spoilt the reality.

However, the high levels of action made Hart's War more than bearable, but families heed a warning before you get this one out the video store - it may be a 15 certificate but it still has some gruesome scenes.

MS