
In shock and denial over his Marine father's death in battle, star lacrosse player Conor Sullivan, always a maverick and a hothead, starts acting out in self-destructive ways that have his mom, Claire, at her wit's end, but arduous training in a wilderness lacrosse camp under the tutelage of his dad's old combat buddy, Sgt. Major Duke Wayne, opens Conor's eyes to the true meaning of maturity, sportsmanship and manhood.... (Full plot summary below)
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In shock and denial over his Marine father's death in battle, star lacrosse player Conor Sullivan, always a maverick and a hothead, starts acting out in self-destructive ways that have his mom, Claire, at her wit's end, but arduous training in a wilderness lacrosse camp under the tutelage of his dad's old combat buddy, Sgt. Major Duke Wayne, opens Conor's eyes to the true meaning of maturity, sportsmanship and manhood.
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| Arkansas Democrat-GazettePhilip MartinPerhaps best received as a workout for the Twilight junior varsity ... |
| Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaThe greatest lacrosse movie of the 21st century - and, unless I'm mistaken, the only lacrosse movie of the 21st century. |
| Common Sense MediaRenee SchonfeldCheesy lacrosse-as-metaphor film has some mature themes. |
| New York TimesAndy WebsterA Warrior's Heart is factory-issue jingoism, yielding no surprises and frightfully few insights. |
| VarietyJoe LeydonWhile the sheer novelty of a feature about lacrosse may be enough to generate some audience curiosity about A Warrior's Heart, this respectably crafted but thoroughly predictable indie rarely deviates from the gameplan followed by countless other dramas about self-absorbed young hotheads who get a shot at redemption on the playing field. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleIt plays like a string of cliches linked together to form a movie with not a single moment of surprise or originality. |
| New York PostSara StewartWith an emotional depth roughly equivalent to that of his lacrosse stick... |
| Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinPerhaps most egregiously, director Mike Sears, working from Martin Dugard's awkwardly structured, subtext-free script, builds little excitement for the game of lacrosse, which comes off here as all sticks and legs and bad camera angles. |
| New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierStill, in movie terms, Warrior's Heart makes curling look like gladiatorial combat. |
| Film Journal InternationalDavid NohNixon and Reagan would have loved this movie. |