Surely the worst movie of 2003

Rating: 2/10 (28 February 2004)

Minghella couldn't have done a worse job.
Everything in the film reeks of an attempt to win the Oscars, yet the result reveals this epic movie as nothing but a vacuous and presumptuous flop.

Nothing seems to work in Cold Mountain: the love story between Kidman and Law has no real explanation, the story is boringly predictable and the overbearing use of cinematic cliches renders the most climatic scenes into pathetically unintentional parodies.

By far the most terrible film of 2003 if not the last decade all together. A pure waste of time.
If one lesson should be learned form this film it is that Minghella should not be allowed to write and direct a movie ever again.