4 Hours. Nothing Really Happens

Rating: 6/10 (8 April 2005)

I'm a big Civil War fan and I've seen most of the movies about the era except this. My aunt recommended it saying it was great. I rented it and started to watch. It's a love story! Not a war movie. But I watched it anyway.
Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) is a stuck up, beautiful southern bell from Georgia and a gambling captain, Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) falls in love with her. Most of the movie is just Scarlett sitting around complaining how she can't marry another woman's husband by the name of Ashley (Leslie Howard). But within the last half hour their child manages to die, they go to Paris, and sit around in a mansion watching Rhett get angry with Scarlett.
I know the film was a breakthrough in film. The film does have its upsides. The filming locations selected were dazzling, the recreation of the escape from Atlanta was doen very well and Clark Gable gives off the sense of a true southern gentleman. However, the story focus' way too much on Scarlett and half way through the movie she just is annoying and boring to watch.
If you like love story, it isn't bad. For a drama, it is sub par.
Gone With The Wind. Starring: Clark Gable, Vivien Liegh, Leslie Howards, Olivia de Havilland, and Thomas Mitchell.
3 out of 5 Stars.