Too sentimental

Rating: 3/10 (26 February 2005)

This movie has its good and its bad sides. The good thing is that the action has been nicely worked out although it depends heavily on the clichÃ© slow-motion drama. The bad thing is my all-time favorite, good old fashioned American sentimental patriotism. It is just too darn sentimental, and it gets so bad at some points that I get distracted and annoyed at the director and fail to see the good sides of this movie. The scene where the daughter runs crying up to her father is really a tear-jerker, at least for other people, but to me it is bad cinematography. Of course the other side of this patriotism is that the English are shown as hypocritical idiots with more sense of style and fashion than of honest combat.