Pretty good epic by summer flick standards

Rating: 7/10 (17 July 2000)

A fairly good story in search for a better director than the one they were given, but despite that, it's still pretty good. Luckily it's no Godzilla and no ID4!
Mel and Heath are great, and so is the rest of the cast. Spike Lee had some problems with black representation. It is an extremely PC look at a rather un-PC time period. All those rednecks I would doubt take on to a black man so easily, but then again, we knew this wasn't 100% historically accurate.
There's enough story, explosions, fights, drama, love, etc. to entertain you. Never gets too slow, but you do catch yourself thinking they could of cut 15 minutes from it and lose nothing!
It brings up one really good point: there need to be more films about this exciting time period in the history of our country and certainly films that go more thought provoking and historically epic in its arch.
Bring them on!