far from the best of its kind but they don't make them like this anymore

Rating: 7/10 (5 June 2005)

this is the kind of sentimental story that i know i'm not supposed to like. I just couldn't help myself... this is a tissue box movie.
there are select scenes that i particularly liked. The tear-jerker for moi being when Samuel's face lights up with hope (during the war when he has been blinded by the gas and is stuck in the barbed wire)upon hearing Tristan's reassuring voice and then...well, dying. :P Followed by Brad Pitt sobbing, "oh no! oh no!" I personally thought that was a great scene.
It's a story about family, a story about betrayal and trust, a story about finding yourself, a story about the journey of life and how little decisions can have great consequences... An unrealistic melodramatic way of exploration of those issues? A bit too Bold and the Beautiful? (Susannah going through the three brothers is like an upper class Brooke Logan and the Forrester brothers)
Who cares... great music, great cinematography, good solid acting. It may be a little too long but there's always the fast forward button.