Not much of a story

Rating: 3/10 (6 September 2009)

You know a movie sucks when half of it has to be narrated. Even worst, we spent the first 20 minutes getting a lecture about Henry Ford's car production, the 1929 Wall Street crash, the great depression and prohibition, before we even got into the "story." Was this a movie about an underdog and his horse or a 7th grade social studies class?! An hour later, the movie was interspersed with other historical facts "a la Ken Burns" style with footnotes and still images about the New Deal, etc. The studio must have assumed that the audience was stupid and did not know that the film was set in the 1920s/30s/40s.
Fortunately, the sets were top quality and most of the lead actors were good, albeit they did not have much to tell us. If you are looking for emotion then you will have to depend on the music.