Certainly good, but...

Rating: 6/10 (28 July 2002)

I'll keep this short. This is a fairly smart, well performed and constructed movie. It has soul, it has character. But it isn't quite the special flick I expected it to be. I enjoyed it wholeheartedly, but I do feel it's one of the many movies which, while very, very good, aren't *quite* the masterpieces critics say they are. Gladiator and Lord of the Rings (This one is a close call) spring to mind.
I definitely recommend it, but it maybe seems to not be as good as perhaps it thinks it is.