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Rating: 3/10 (26 December 2003)

The academy has been hyping this in order to try and award their anorexic little no-talent redhead aussie a film that can try and unhorse Return of the King. They've been pushing Cold Mountain down the public's throat for quite a while. My only question is: Will they refund me the $10 for two matinee tickets, $13 of refreshments, and time spent traveling to, sitting through, and racing home from this piece of garbage??? They did just enough Civil War research to learn how to spell "war." As an avid student of the time period, I was horribly disappointed by their parade of inaccuracy. They present battle scenes unlike those ever witnessed during the 1860s, because their film crew had no apparent clue about Civil War battles and tactics. It is no small wonder that they had to retreat filming overseas. They had hoped that re-enactors would give their time and effort to this work, as they had done so for "Gettysburg" and "Gods and Generals." Not a single living historian of the Civil War was willing to be associated with this drivel, and now, having seen it, I understand why. One is hard pressed, indeed, to find anything historically accurate, emotionally moving, or socially redeeming in this utter affront to the hundreds of thousands who died during the American Civil War. This film wants so badly to be on par with "Gone with the Wind." It would have trouble matching up intellectually with "South Park" or "Freddy vs. Jason." Don't be suckered in. There are a handful of good films in theaters right now. This is not one of them.