perhaps Brad Pitts best performance

Rating: 9/10 (15 January 2008)

Sprawling,epic tale spanning the last years of the 19th century to the 1930's and full of incident which you would expect in a melodrama.Film perhaps overdoes the melodrama to almost Shakespearean proportions at times,it works very well overall.Film is helped very much by the performances of the four main leads and this was the film that made Brad Pitt a star, and he gives perhaps his best performance of his career so far.Aidan Quinn quietly steals the acting honours though.The scenes of World War 1 conflict are pretty well done and make you wish there were more of them.Only the film's rather disappointing,rushed ending prevents this from being excellent in my opinion. very good.