What!!

Rating: Null/10 (22 January 2002)

Funny how a film like this should reach the top 250. When I read about the treatment of this film about a year ago and that it was a Bruckheimer production; I kind'a knew what to expect. In an age of political correctness etc it's a shame that they can get away with making what I call nothing but a contemporary "Zulu". Portraying the natives as nameless, even faceless adversaries, stinks like some pro-Vietnam propaganda film of the late 60's.
Yes the production values were breathtaking, but that was not enough to cover up for the fact that this was nothing but a "God Bless America in the face of adversity" trash that we have to put up from Hollywood every year. It did feel like some half-arsed attempt to justify a war against terrorism ideology. Maybe I am being to hard on it but in the present state of international affairs, this weak film from one of my best directors, reeked clumsily of flag-waving to say the least!