Impressive, darn impressive

Rating: 8/10 (1 January 2007)

(This comment is valid to the DVD issue)
This film, about one of the first colored regiments on the Federal side, is not the best war film I've seen, but it comes close. But with the extra material, which is the best I've can remember ever have seen, it ranks among the very best.
The direction by Edward Zwick, the acting by Morgan Freeman, Matthew Broderick and Denzel Washington, among others. are all top rate, and the story about the 54th Massachusetts is fairly well told, but I must say that the first featurette is almost its equal in intensity and importance, being a very well done historical presentation of what the 54th did though its operating career - that in a way continues to this very day, and some more information about who these men were, their background, et cetera. That it is narrated by Morgan Freeman, doesn't hurt it one bit :-)!
Well worth your money, and a good complement to the movie 'Gettisburgh'!