Too Much Sadistic Torture and Brutality for me

Rating: 3/10 (14 September 2004)

Torture and brutality in the extreme. Utterly disgusting. I stopped watching after the farm couple who were friends of Ada were killed (the man) and tortured (the woman). And their sons shot. Romantic? Baloney! There are far better romantic films out there, and far better war films (Band of Brothers, Saving Private Ryan). As graphic as those war movies are, they weren't sadistic like this one.
The Renee Zellwegger character was pretty amusing, and the scenery was pretty but that isn't enough of a compensation for the gross stuff. And unlike other women I don't find Jude Law appealing so I didn't have that pleasure either. My husband loved the movie, though. Thought it was great.