Dull

Rating: 2/10 (18 August 2006)

One of the dullest films I've seen in some time. There is no single thing to recommend it. The script is uninspiring; the cast range from the adequate (Fiennes, Csokas)) through the bad (Franco, Nielsen) to the truly atrocious (Bratt, giving a performance of such stupendous badness it's difficult not to fall asleep when he opens his mouth). The director would appear to have done nothing more than say 'okay, stand there and say your lines'. It does liven up when the 'great raid' actually occurs, but that is over 90 minutes in. The music is the generic, ponderous drone you would expect to hear on this type of flag-waver.
A chore to watch, and it's a shame that the events that inspired it weren't better represented.