I must say "Lions for Lambs" is clearly a film that's interesting, and it gets your attention when you hear the Iraqi war and terrorism mentioned, a subject that's so common to everyone. Though the film feels like a talk show or debate style forum it's still well done for the fact that it shows the viewpoints of both sides as the differences in the discussions between characters are tense and direct just like a political debate. And the viewer gets to hear the side of the right, so you can't say director Robert Redford though liberal is preaching to the left. Also the film jogs around three segments yet all are connected by the key issue of Iraq, and Afghanistan and the war on terror. First it starts up in the nations capital as Janine Roth(Meryl Streep) a reporter for a TV station that's critical and frustrated and upset at republicans and the current administration for the war. She gets to hammer away in an interview with the new rising young conservative star U.S. Senator Jasper Irving(Tom Cruise) both veterans are direct and do a good job, neither gives in always defending their points of view making their segment highly good. Later shifting to the college campus somewhere in California with Redford as a liberal ex vet professor of political science who starts to advise a cynical student(Andrew Garfield)to make choices and try no matter how much bull or corrupt way of life the world seems, yet memories of two students before who's lives were taken in Afghanistan haunt him. The film is short and stays mostly to the point of a debate style weighing the pros and cons of war, terror, and freedom of independence. Ending on a note that leaves the viewer to think more about the strong issues and feel the need that everyone must make their own choices and stand strong on these strong ever lasting issues of our culture.