Comedy for the ages

Rating: 1/10 (8 August 2000)

One of the top comedies of the 1990s. Unintentionally, of course. There's really no other way to take it. Yes, the cinematography is fine. As for the rest ... Anthony Hopkins channels Popeye. Brad Pitt channels his hair (I wasn't aware long, flowing locks were all the rage among officers of the Great War). The sheer heavy-handedness and predictability of the story. ... Seriously, when I saw this in the theater, I burst out laughing several times -- most notably, the ludicrous scene involving the barbed wire and the machine gun. Hard to believe this is the work of the same director who made "Glory" and "Courage Under Fire."