Oh Jude, please...

Rating: 5/10 (7 April 2011)

The best thing about this movie is without a doubt Jude Law. Oh my goodness he is hot!
The plot is somehow tired, full of clichés and very predictable, but I suppose it was being true to the book (having never read it, I wouldn't know). But it has some redeeming aspects, like Ruby, played fantastically well by Renee Zellweger, and Ada (Nicole Kidman) who did a very good job playing the fine lady with useless skills in a time when finesse was the least thing required.
However, Jude Law definitely steals the show (at least from a woman's point of view), he's totally charming, very sexy and incredibly handsome. He seems very natural in the skin of a southern man. The love scenes are very well done and very beautiful, the chemistry between them is electric.
But it's a rather long and boring movie, with many unnecessary sub plots and annoying characters, like the priest and his strange habits, (at least for a "man of God" anyway as he calls himself).
The self appointed home-guard is also quite good, being true to their call: nasty, cruel and relentless, if not contradicting! How come the blond rock star look alike thug was not fighting in the war and apparently quite right in hunting other men just as young as himself and killing them for desertion?
Anyway, if you don't have something else better to do, it's a good entertainment on a wet, cold night!