If you got nothing else to do...

Rating: 3/10 (29 January 2008)

... Then I'm pretty sure you still got a good shot at finding something better to do that watching this movie.
I'm a big fan of epic movies with a plot that makes you think for days. Movies that touch you in some way, and in the end makes you wonder about what really happened in the movie. This movie will definitely make you wonder. Not what happened, but why you spent that much time watching it.
Keira Knightley plays her role as good as it can be played. Enough said. Rest of the acting is pretty good as well, but that simply is not enough to carry a movie. The plot simply isn't there. It's basically about a girl who tells a lie and puts her sister's boyfriend to prison. We see incoherent scenes from his years in prison, and then later on we follow him at war. Then he meets his old girl (knightley) again, and they get together. That's mainly the plot in this movie. There's nothing epic, nothing new in this movie.
The only reason I could think of makes people think is that it constantly jumps in time. It sees everything from two angles, which is pretty annoying if you ask me. First we see something through the eyes of one person, then the exact same scene through another person's eyes. Now, if you want to see shitloads of boring scenes, go watch Dirty Dancing. If you want to see just as many boring scenes - twice - then watch this movie...
I'll give it 3 stars for the good acting, and well... Even though they failed miserably at making a good movie, at least they tried.