A gross distortion of history.

Rating: Null/10 (15 July 2000)

A slick piece of juvenile froth. A distortion of history which is not only an insult to the British people, but a degradation of American cinema to the level of jingoistic bunkum. Hollywood has to realise that there is a Big world outside of America, which will not go on accepting this kind of slap in the face, and if it continues to pander to the lowest common denominator of the uneducated with rubbish like this, it is doing no service to Americans.
This film has been defended as 'just entertainment and not to be taken as history', but we know that cinema has always had a role in defining attitudes. For instance the typical western has led to the misconception throughout the world that cowboys where all white, whereas history proves that at least 30 percent of them were black.
Hollywood needs to grow up, which it won't do if it keeps making bull like this.