a Brad Pitt vanity project

Rating: Null/10 (21 December 2001)

A Brad Pitt vanity project. That is the most important thing to understand about this film. It ALL revolves around BP and how pretty he is.
I saw this film in the theatre when it came out and wouldn't dare waste my time watching it again, so I'm surely rusty on some of the details. I can't review specific passages. Hell, the damn thing went on so long, I'm not sure I can even remember much of the plot (BP grows up, BP saves his brother in the war, BP get hot for his brother's wife, BP goes to sea, BP marries an injun, BP.... whatever).
I knew this was going to be a long ride a few minutes into it. Julia Ormand gets off the train, meets the boys and the father. She says, oh where's so and so (BP), and someone says "here he comes (or something)" and BP comes riding up in slow motion (at least I remember it as SM), long hair flowing, looking pretty as a picture.
The other thing I remember about this film is that when BP went off to sea on his big adventure (to find his soul or whatever it was), he finally returns looking just as pretty as when he left. He doesn't look a day older or day more mature. He doesn't act as if he found anything that he was looking for.
The he marries the Indian. Of course against all advice and propriety, he couldn't do it if it didn't. And we see coming from the next county the big scene allowing BP to emote (glad to see from another reviewer that someone got a laugh out of it except me, my audience was all chicks, sobbing was heard all around).
This was a project that BP chose for himself to make him look good, lots of shirtless scenes, bigger than life posing and the opportunity to portray a character that got eaten by a bear. What more can a pretty boy actor ask for?
I'm afraid I was rude to the people around me when I saw this, I hooted, snickered, laughed at the whole thing.