Overly long and boring.

Rating: 3/10 (16 January 2007)

Add to that sub-par acting, wooden characters, terrible dialogue and script, with overweight civil war reenactors and you have a real stinker that would only appeal to the hardest core Civil War history buff.
This movie is totally devoid of any suspense or drama. It would make a good sleeping pill. Even the action scenes are drawn out and boring.
Also, can any performance be worse than Martin Sheen as Robert E. Lee, who spent the entire time looking and acting like a deranged psychopath? Yes it can, how about Jeff Daniels and those crocodile tears flowing into that fake beard after he gets the news of someone dying? What a joke.
I did give this movie 3 stars for the unintentional humor provided by the fake beards and lousy acting.
A pox on Robert F. Maxwell for directing this stinker and Ted Turner for thrusting it upon an unsuspecting movie going public. I'm just glad I didn't have to sit through this monstrosity in a theatre. I picked it up for 5.99 in a bargain bin. I think I got ripped-off.