Don't waist your time and money

Rating: 2/10 (23 September 2004)

This is one of the worse movies I have ever seen based in the civil war era.
Now I don't have a problem with the fact the they had a British actor and an Australian actress in a movie about the American civil war filmed in Romania (At least not a big problem).
This movie simply didn't work from beginning to end. It simply slouched along for two and a half hours bringing in a truck load of pointless cameos that simply seemed arbitrary and unfounded.
It also boasts one of the most ridiculous mockery's of an academy award win in history which was for Renee Zelwiggers over the top and very Machanical and two dimensional portrayal of Ruby.
Also, the writing simply did not fit the characters. They had these people with second grade educations attempting to speak eloquently with poetic tools likes metaphor's. I hate to use these old phrases but you could feel the paper the script was written on while they spoke.
It also feature several needlessly explicit sex scene's, that again were just kind of there with no real message that they seem to want to send.
This is a bad movie with a plot that was doomed from the beginning that leads to several pointless adventures(To use the term loosely)followed by a long drawn out resolution with a ridiculous and predictable ending.
Take my advice, save yourself two and a half hours and do something a little more productive.