not a bad movie, but not really "original"

Rating: 6/10 (21 August 2004)

In short, I think this movie took a lot of success elements from most "epic" type of movies, such as Titanic, "Saving Private Ryan", and so on. But in itself there are not many "original" elements in this movie that worth talking or remembering about. That is, for some of the slow "pace", I felt that it was copied from the "Gladiator," for the love story build on top of a real historic war (or a historic disaster), it seems to be from Titanic, and for the Alabama chapel music, it seems to be just a variation from the "river dance" scene from Titanic too. Anyway, it's not really a bad movie, but I would love to see more "original" movies coming out from Hollywood..