Glorious

Rating: 10/10 (18 February 2005)

I'll make this short and to the point:
"Glory" is the most beautiful war movie ever made, carried from beginning to end by a faultless cast and rousing sequences that really gives more depth and meaning to a comment made by a Union soldier close to the film's end, "Give 'em hell, 54th!" The 54th Regiment is one of history's most underrated and under-appreciated moments, and 1989's "Glory" follows its beginnings with a largely volunteer army of Freedmen and former slaves (who faced certain death from the Confederacy if they were ever caught), to its intense scrutiny by the supporting white brigades, and up until its final "glorious" moment when they were ushered into history when the 54th laid siege to Fort Wagner. Not many films have made me cry before, but the 54th, when they officially become a part of history, allowed me to ball my eyes out. Knowing that my brothers in the "glorious" 54th gave their lives really makes me appreciate the sacrifices they made and the significance of those sacrifices.
Glorious is "Glory," and the 54th gave 'em hell, all right - 10/10