This was a self-important pretentious update of "The Good the Bad & The Ugly"

Rating: Null/10 (2 January 2004)

Take a cheesy but fun 1970's western, full of people shooting others for thin reasons, and replace macho man Clint Eastwood's attitude with Nicole Kidman, and you have "Cold Mountain."
Both movies are basically about the same thing: a strange loner's journeys around the civil war era. Both have the same over the top pulp villains. Even the shots of gunfights haven't improved much in 30 years. The difference between the fun 1970's westerns and this movie, is that this movie is full of South-bashing and high-pretentiosness. This movie also feels about 30 minutes too long.