Too long, redundant...and confusing ending sequences???

Rating: 5/10 (23 December 2003)

I guess it is akin to desecrating the flag to say anything bad about this film but it IS too long and painfully redundant, and I almost left twice thinking it had ended.
If this movie is Academy Award material then David Lean's entire body of work should be elevated to some near deity level! I have brought out the dreaded "thing" definition for this over stuffed turkey.
Perhaps it could have been a pretty good little movie with someone other than a moron editing it...but this "thing" is over three hours long and then it tried to end a half a dozen times and couldn't seem to decide which was best ...so hell do them all.
Ok, ok I'll settle down and give a few thoughts to this..."thing". It had some neat special effects...even if they were not all that original. The giant elephants were cool but reminded me of better done versions in Star Wars. The battle scenes were ok one time through but they were redundant to the absurd!
The acting is ok in spots considering what was there to work with and...let's say the un-thinkable here...the movie was a mess of too much time on too little substance and the ending...make that endings ...well a couple of them I actually liked but....not at three hours plus to get there!!!
So, it is not a good movie. Cut an hour out of it by a skilled editor and it might be an ok movie and straighten up a few silly sub plots and the ending (s) and you would have a fair movie.

Sorry...the king is naked as a Jay-Bird and he has no new cloak!