One of the WORST films EVER

Rating: Null/10 (4 October 2003)

This goes right down to the cellar along with "Jurassic Park: The Lost World", "Armageddon", and "AI: Artificial Intelligence". I'm not even going into the historical inaccuracies, bias, etc.; I'll leave that up to historians and those who think they qualify. This is just a BAD movie. BAD BAD BAD BAD!
It's a horrendous mixture of unnecessary and ineffective violence (e.g. a soldier getting decapitated by a cannon ball), totally predictable and overdone plot (e.g. a man who tries to leave behind his warlike past is reluctantly brought back to the battlefield; never heard that one before), and worst of all, a gross insult to average moviegoer's intelligence.
It's as if Mel Gibson tried to make another "Braveheart" but let Jerry Bruckheimer and his band of cheesy overdramatic film makers add stuff to it. I mean, that scene where the main female character (I do not apologize for forgetting her name, since it hardly mattered what her name was or even WHO she was in the movie anyway) gives that lousy, cheesy speech in a townhall assembly is simply awful. It ranks right up there with a similar speech on a Chicago L train in "On the Line" with Joey Fatone and Lance Bass of N*Sync (another bad movie).
And to those who get some kind of patriotic high by watching this film: before you go shoot a British guy, watch the movie again, and please realize how awful it is. There are better movies out there that will give you that patriotic feelin'.
joe k.