sentimental, inaccurate, heavy-handed

Rating: 5/10 (12 August 2004)

sentimental, inaccurate, heavy-handed - could have been so much better. Is this kind of gooey slop taking over? Granted, this is a family show, so I can understand some downplaying of the Red Pollard dark side, but everything about this movie was done at the most obvious, trite level. How many times do we have to hear about the horse having heart, about the little man, etc. - we got it the first time. The real story was great, the recent book was not bad, did they have to make such a disappointing movie?