Well-Made But Worthless Movie

Rating: Null/10 (7 January 2003)

I just watched the "Redux" extended version of this film. I watched it after reading a number of these comments. I think my tastes in movies are rather broad; they include epic adventure and war movies--I like the Lord of the Rings movies very much, The Last of the Mohicans, Saving Private Ryan, etc. Still, this movie left me quite underwhelmed! I'm not saying that I wasn't -affected- by the movie, but the effect it had was to sober me to life, but at the same time to put me into a strange post-LONG-movie stupor. And so I spent 3-1/2 hours of my life watching this movie--one of the best of all time?--and I saw no value in it! I wasn't entertained, educated, or encouraged to do anything about anything. I call that a waste of time, even though--as others have noted--the cinematography was masterful. Many other movies have great cinematography: watch one of them.