Yawn, yawn, yawn, yawn....

Rating: 6/10 (29 June 2003)

Let's see...how to rate this movie....hmmmm...
Lots of people fighting and killing each other.....maybe a plus, depending on your filmgoing requirements. But only for a brief few minutes here and there.
Hmmm......That's about it, really. Typical subplots involving love interest, racialism and such like, but all thinly done and cliched.
I'm not even sure why I watched this movie, other than to avoid watching it in a few years on TV, which I now know to do. It was really, really boring and predictable.
As the film progressed I came to hate DiCaprio's character, to the extent that I was hoping Bill would gut him like a fish at the end. Sadly, this was not to be.
And what about Bill? Bill Cutting? A man who is a murderous thug who likes to carve people up and who happens to have the surname Cutting. Oh come on! I haven't seen such terrible character naming since the days of Sledgehammer! Why not just name Di Caprio's character Amsterdam Snivelling-Loser and be done with it. Yeah, great name, Mr Scriptwriter, Cutting for a butcher! Har, har! Had me rolling in the aisles. Not!
This is not a good movie. Nice cinematography, lousy film. About as much fun as drinking a pot of glue. And I mean the nasty, bad tasting kind, too.
Save yourself some time here if you absolutely must go and watch this. After the opening battle, leave the theatre/fast forward until the last ten minutes or so, then resume viewing. The rest is filler, and dull, tedious filler at that.
Oh, by the way, another sad moment of this film is that the gunboats don't level the city entirely, which, by that time in the film, you are hoping they will do completely.
Dross.