Underrated and Magnificent

Rating: 9/10 (17 October 1998)

The fact that this great film was not even nominated for an academy award for best picture shows how out-to-lunch the academy members were in 1989. This film not only should have won over "Driving Miss Daisy" that year but would be highly competitive in any year. Matthew Broderick shines as the Colonel who commands a rag-tag group of black enlisted men during the Civil War. He and the men he fights with show what true honor and bravery are all about during wartime. Every character is compelling and you feel right along with them as the plot unfolds. A must see.