Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Raetsonwe Redundant and unnecessary.

ChanBot i must have seen a different film!!

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

hddu10 Very little good I can say about this film. The only way I can see anyone actually liking this film is if there were a) israeli b) a die-hard israeli supporter or c) clueless. Oddly, one thing this film ironically accomplishes is that it underscores just how disconnected many Israelis are from the people they claim to know everything about. The very fact they chose the title "Lebanon", when it's about israeli soldiers in a tank, rather than being about Lebanon, Lebanese people or giving ANY 2-dimensional view into the conflict is proof of the arrogance of the writer/director of this farce. And I seriously don't know why Ashraf Barhom allows himself to continuously play degrading roles, but he is to Arabs what minstrel shows were to African Americans. The actual events in this film did occur...maybe one day someone will actually create a film that do them justice.

bunnynu This is my first Lebanese movie .And being a war movie enthusiast i really liked this movie. The Protagonist of movie has really acted well. He shows his war fear in the initial part of movie and eventually wins over it. War is hell and This movie paints a hellish picture of WAR inside a Tank. A Scene where the woman walks on the middle of road naked - is so touching. War can't be depicted more accurate than that. In one scene the old man sitting beside road untouched by the enormity of ongoing violence - the Scene is epic. The eyes of old man at that scene are to be cherished. Movie is 'i think' the first attempt to show a war inside a tank - which makes this a unique piece of work. Movie is more of people involved in war rather than the violence itself. I'm Going 6 out of 10.

SmokeyTee I had mixed reviews prior to seeing Lebanin and sadly this was a film that lacked in many departments and I am glad I resisted ordering on blu-ray.Situated inside a tank for several claustrophobic days during the Israel-Lebanon war and seen, largely, through the gun sight of the gunner this could have been a tense, gritty film with much in common with submarine films or the decent 80's film The Beast.Some reviews I have read complained about the emotive or manipulative images or events portrayed and I share these sentiments. The camera unnaturally/gun focuses in close up on "evocative" images like corpses, a poster of the virgin mary, more corpses, crying women - the gunner is spends the film watching like a tourist providing the audience with dramatic/tragic scenes in close up. Which feels unnatural, scripted and left myself and other reviewers feeling manipulated.The grime of the tank is palpable and the soldiers become dirtier as they creep further into (or out of) contested territory. This might have been a device designed to reflect the mental state of the soldiers (and interesting) - but the psychological states of the inexperienced and uninteresting crew was beyond us. We just didn't care by the time things got tense.Perhaps if the driver's view, and the commander's, were included instead of just the gunners this might have helped the film. As it was the gunner spent the whole time turning the tank barrel to follow people in close up instead of doing his job and watching for enemies. It felt wack.Viewers that think a camera being shaken in the last word in action and that believe what is put on screen before them is implicitly true and authentic might love this film. The wife gave up at about 30min, I fast forwarded the last 20 min.Get The Beast out or watch Das Boot again instead...

chaz-28 Lebanon is claustrophobic; it is the Army's Das Boot. The entire film is shot from within a single tank. About 75% of the time, the audience sees the four men inside of the tank and the other quarter is the view from the gunner's camera. The driver, weapon's loader, and tank commander may sometimes feel envious that the gunner gets such a good view, but the film lets the audience know the gunner is the unlucky one. He witnesses the effects of the 1982 Lebanese war on both militants and innocent civilians who get caught in the crossfire of the Israeli and Lebanese bullets.The crew of this single Israeli tank has a very myopic view of the war; they have no bigger picture of their place in maneuvers of their small platoon respective to the rest of the Israeli advance into southern Lebanon. They also may be the worst trained armor soldiers in the Israeli Defense Force. The concepts of chain of command, military bearing, and following orders appear to be words on paper to them rather than engrained truths. It is never clearly stated if they are regulars or hastily called up reserves, but perhaps the situations they are forced to endure and their complete lack of vision and understanding would call into question any tank crew's abilities.The tank's gunner has never fired his weapons in a violent setting prior to the war's outset on June 6, 1982. His first chance to fire upon the enemy and protect the lives of the dismounted patrol next to his tank does not go well. Sweat pours down his forehead and his shaking hands are reluctant to follow through even though it becomes clear the oncoming vehicle means harm to his fellow soldiers. To make up for his mistake, the next truck to come down the road bears the brunt of the gunner's attempt for repentance, be it an enemy or an innocent farmer.Not helping the gunner's attempts to do his job is the incessant squabbling between the tank commander and the weapon's loader. These two men obviously know one another from their day jobs and the command structure does not seem to apply to their interactions because the loader constantly questions the commander's orders thereby undermining his authority. The commander does no favors for himself or his crew by looking unsure of himself and his situation.The most effective and memorable scenes are those from the gunner's camera of the war's destruction. There are mutilated bodies in buildings and along the road side. There is a screaming mother asking the soldiers about her daughter even though everyone knows the daughter is dead upstairs in a building. The single view from the gunner's camera of the outside world creates a fog of war so thick for the crew a breakdown is almost inevitable. The tank becomes absolutely filthy, oil leaks from every porous rivet, and the floor is covered in a junk yard of refuse and filth making the viewers relieved they do not have to smell the inside of that tank. I highly recommend this film. To fans of war movies, their pre-conceived ideas of what a war movie is will be shaken by the events happening through the gunner's camera. Overall, I hope audiences take away ideas that war does not produce the objectives their politicians claim it will and even though a particular culture or ethnicity has been deemed evil by your society, they will look particularly vulnerable and more like yourself than you can imagine when seen getting annihilated through a camera.