影片是罗伯特·雷德福执导的第7部电影长片,继《重返荣耀》之后,中间整整间隔了7年之久……《狮入羊口》最初的时候很可能会因为年轻角色的社会意识和觉悟带给你一些想象不到的冲击力,但是雷德福却将他们变成了一批只会出现在恐怖电影中的牵线木偶,有着明显的脱节和不适应,如此看来,这个由马修·迈克尔·卡纳翰(Matthew Michael Carnahan)创作的原创剧本,即使真的充满了感情,却更适合于舞台,绝非大银幕。
Dr. Malley: World War I. German Soldiers wrote poems about the bravery of British Grunts. Admired them. Almost as much as the laughed at the British High Command who just wasted those same Grunts by the hundred-thousand. A German General wrote, "Nowhere else have I seen such Lions led by such Lambs."