Pretty good....

Rating: Null/10 (28 January 2001)

Most of what I could say about this others have already said before, so I will keep it brief...
Good points:
Acting-Sheen, Jordan, Daniels, etc all fine. Nothing great, mind-but it works in the context of the film.
Historical detail/accuracy-Great, they filmed it onsite, the uniforms, weapons, etc army tactics, etc. all have a ring of authenticity to them.
Level of Importance factor-this wasn't treated as just any other battle, or as a typical day in the life of Robert E Lee-and that is good, it sure wasn't.
I liked it quite alot.
Bad Points:
Too long-a 4 hour plus flick? It plays better as a mini-series I think, and a damned goof one too.
Dialogue-Stilted historical speechifying galore. Some of it-Lee before his officers, for example, makes sense. But alotta it is stilted and way too formal. If Gen Armistead needs to go answer the Call of nature, I think here it'd have been accompanied with strings and 9 paragraphs of the historical significance of it all. That coulda been done away with.
Pacing-Slow. More action was needed, believe it or not. The scenes around the fire were somewhat sluggish.
Gore factor-mostly an old fashioned 'show the body fall' but none of the Platoon, Private Ryan guts stuff. Maybe more of that was necessary?
But that's about it. I look on this as being a fine achievement overall, kinda neat to find out Ted Turner and Ken Burns had little roles here; and I have zero problems with the soldiers being portrayed by reenactors-who Else should have done this?? the local Nat'l Guard??
*** outta ****, pretty good.