period piece

Rating: Null/10 (21 October 1999)

This one needs some historical contextual understanding to better appreciate. It was the equivalent to Titanic at the time, a record setting hit, with ground breaking fx and the like. Nowadays, sitting through-it's a bit of an endurance test-LONNNGG!!! The racism inherint is kinda sick too-the blacks are Vile gorillas to be beaten down by the Great KKK-that is hard to put up with, for me at least. People running round in blackface usually don't cut it post-1930, either.

So...what can you say-it has some good acting, and definate spectacle, battle, etc-but you don't get to appreciate it if the rascism gets in the way.
Myself, I give this a mixed ***, but for its ground breaking stuff at the time-the content is sorta sad if you must know.