Thank you, no. I'll stay by the fire.

Rating: 3/10 (28 June 2004)

Friends of mine told me how good the book of Cold Mountain was so I borrowed one of their copies and read half of it before giving up in boredom. The same friends told me to see the movie because it was better than the book and that I might like that... I didn't.
This is the sad tale of two people who barely know each other torn apart by war and who wait expectantly for the moment they come back together.
The war scenes are spectacular and the film is wonderful to look at but, but for me this movie is so over wrought that I can't accept it as anything but a bad Gone with the Wind wannabe. Nothing in this movie seemed realistic and so I couldn't accept any of it. If I were you I'd avoid it.