Nice moments but essentially rubbish

Rating: 3/10 (16 February 2007)

The movie's fantasy scenes are great, and the best bit of the movie. But the rest of it was very much story by numbers. In fact it was melodramatic pap that wrote itself. The good guys were oh so good, the bad guy oh so bad, the characters clichéd as far as they could be, it was in the end kind of silly, which for a subject as bold as a civil war, is not good. The main girl also had more than a touch of Anne Frank about her visually speaking, which may have been just me, but again added to the trite feeling of the overall movie
But the fantasy scenes were really good, and if the movie focused more on these, rather than the rudimentary main storyline, it would have been better.