A Great Movie

Rating: 10/10 (26 June 2007)

This movie is my all time favourite - Seeing the movie made me investigate its story and facts may be slightly altered yes but it does follow the actual events quite closely. People who criticise the movie are swayed by their own take on the movie and perhaps their own historical beliefs. What you can't get away from is the film is a moving one with a fantastic music score which compliments the feelings perfectly and can only do good for people who watch it nowadays and in the future. You have to have no soul not to be moved by this film. Hindsight is a wonderful thing we can sit here with a grasp of "the bigger picture" of the American Civil War and many other wars before or since. Colonel Shaw and his brave men of the 54th did not have this they only knew what they believed in at the time together with their comradeship.