Elliott never stood a chance.....

Rating: 6/10 (28 June 2014)

Colonel Ludlow decides to raise his three sons in the wilds of Montana, where they are away from the government and society he has turned his back on.
The brothers mature and have an unbreakable bond, and when Samuel, the youngest of the three, returns from college, he brings with him his beautiful fiancée, Susanna.
The eldest son, Alfred, soon finds himself in love with her, and things become complicated when he discovers a growing passion between Susanna and Tristan, Colonel Ludlow's favourite son.
As the brothers set out to war, suspicion and jealousy threaten to tear apart their bond.....
Sumptuous, scenic, smouldering, sensual, and anything else beginning with the letter S describes this would be epic, but come the end of the film, it leaves you feeling depressed and empty.
Granted, it's beautiful to look at, and The acting is top notch, but any fool would know that Pitt was always going to get Ormond, the minute Zwick gives him his grand entrance.
Pitt sizzles whenever he is on screen, and given the fact that Thomas doesn't look a day older than when he was in E.T., and witters away in more or less every scene he's in.
Quinn is okay, but he is more of a spare part than a main character here, as the second and third act consists of Pitt's quest to find himself, and it all becomes a little convoluted toward the end, so we just get tragedy after tragedy happening to distract the viewer from all the pointlessness of the narrative.
It looks as good as Pitt, Hopkins does his best staring into the distance, and it all ends with a big bear fight.