Something was missing...

Rating: Null/10 (28 December 2003)

A lot of this movie was done right. Good acting by all actors, great scenery, well-done battle scenes showing the futility of it all, etc., but something about this film just didn't draw me in. I kept waiting for it to grab at me and pull me in, but sadly, I eventually was beginning to think Inman's journey would go on forever and the ending would never come. I will say that Rene Zellweger was the best of the bunch, a joy to watch her. This film could have been so much more. I really wanted to care about the characters more, but other than a few times (Portman's sadness and Cathy Baker's grief), I was never that emotionally involved. I appreciate the effort, but the extra "something" for a great film just simply was not there - darn.