The Stolen Rebellion

Rating: Null/10 (29 November 2003)

Spoilers.
Weir bores me. Part of him wants to be Spielberg, another part wants to be Coppola. So, between being torn between the entertaining and the dramatic, he fails.
Williams is the focus, creating the rebel-rouser copied by Jack Black in 'School of Rock.' If you liked 'Remember the Titans' and 'Braveheart', you'll love this. They are shallow perceptions of disturbing themes. Mortality, humanity, family, and sex are all explored, none to the fullest.
So, when we have emotion for emotion's sake, we are bored and left unresolved with questions left to be answered. In the end, it's a 50s sitcom with the homily at the end to please everyone. Perhaps it's from these reasons why Williams is so powerful. I love the scene of him instructing the students to rip the pages out of their books. It's the only impression this film left with me, tearing out pages. Rebelling against the idea that the abstract is containable or even gradable.
Overall, mediocre at best, sentimental at worst. 2.5 out of 5.