why this movie sucks

Rating: 1/10 (10 December 1998)

I saw this awful piece of trash because it was supposed to have these great battle scenes that compare to "Spartacus". In a similar Kubrickian twist, I'm equally as disappointed by this film as I was by the comparison made between "2001" and "Contact" (an equally stupid overblown movie). OK, a comparison between thousands of barely armed desperate rebels being slaughtered in the hundreds by giant rolling balls of burning hay to fifty dudes in skirts with maces on a muddy field is JUST NOT THERE.
The problems run deeper. The "freedom" theme in this movie is overly simplistic. OK, I'm an idealist, but if a movie's gonna be anything more than entertaining, if it's gonna have pretensions to being relevant in some way to real life, as this movie does, it better not have no meat on its bones. This movie's theme goes nowhere beyond pure shining heart idealism that nobody could really believe in. IN war, everybody gets dirty. I know that, everybody knows that, but this movie of good guys vs. bad guys is NOT a great movie. It's just not. It's just entertainment, and even on that level it fails because it's too long and the acting is terrible. Bombzers on this one.