Bought the DVD as soon as it came out!!!!

Rating: Null/10 (18 June 2002)

Considering that I just saw the movie once in the theatre a week before it was taken out of the theatres, I would have to say that I really like this movie considering that I do not like to watch any movie that involves a war where MANY innocent people are killed. It was recommended highly by some excellent film critics that I know personally. Since I bought the DVD, I am impressed on how a good number of the actors in the movie are not even American and had to pass as an American especially as a southerner with the accents they had to get pat down. Even though the guy who plays Todd Blackburn (AKA Orlando Bloom who is very handsome)had a hard time trying to get it to where he was speaking like an American and his British accent isn't even all that heavy. Hugh Dancy definitely had the Amercan way of talking down pat (He's also another Brit.) Eric Bana (AKA "Hoot") did a good job getting the American accent down since on the extra footage on the DVD he has a heavy Australian accent. And YES, it's great to see Josh Hartnet be in a leading role in a movie!!!! Sam Shepherd definitely could pass as a military official. The poem reading at the end credits made me want to cry because I thought of how sweet it is. And another thing is, Orlando Bloom who's Todd Blackburn, I would just have to say that he is actually older than a good number of the other young men that are also in the movie even though his character is suppose to be the youngest Ranger. Orlando did look like he was really twelve as Grimes (AKA Ewen M.) said when he was signing him in. Orlando is older than Josh by a year and a half, Hugh Dancy, Tom Guiry, Brenden, etc., just to name a few off the top of me head. This deserves a 9 out of 10.