

While The Guardian's Catherine Shoard praised the film and Firth's performance, giving it four stars out of five, The Hollywood Reporter 's David Rooney called it an "old-fashioned war drama stuffed into a cumbersomely choppy time structure." It's not been a great year for Kidman's period pieces, in fact. The Railway Man - Die Liebe Seines Lebens Nicole Kidman Colin Firth Blu-ray. The film looks lush and lovely, but d espite its pedigreed cast, The Railway Man ended up getting lukewarm reviews at the Toronto International Film Festival. Kidman plays the wife of Firth's Eric Lomax, a World War II vet, who was tortured at the hands of the Japanese as a prisoner of war. It is an adaptation of the 1995 autobiography of the same name by Eric Lomax, and stars Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Jeremy Irvine, and Stellan Skarsgrd. The Railway Man (1,848) 7.1 1 h R Colin Firth stars as a former army officer who sets out on a mission of revenge to confront the man who tormented him while he was prisoner at a Japanese labor camp during World War II. trailer for Jonathan Teplitzky's The Railway Man. Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth deal with a terrible past while looking very beautiful in the U.K. Director: Jonathan Teplitzky Starring: Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Stellan Skarsgrd, Jeremy Irvine Running Time: 116 minutes Certificate.
