This movie is not a history lesson

Rating: 9/10 (14 August 2000)

Let me first say I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. It wasn't, in my opinion, Braveheart, but it was very entertaining. In reading some of the reviews of this movie, many people have found fault with the fact that it was historically inaccurate. I don't believe this movie was intended to be a documentary. Like so many fact based movies that preceded it, it was intended to be, plainly and simply, a MOVIE. If you want history, go to the library or the History Channel. I find it amusing that a great majority of novels, when they are made into movies, are changed so much [characters and plots changed, added or deleted] without, for the most part, people getting upset about the changes. Yet when a movie is based on actual incidents and/or characters, people tend to get upset that they may not be totally, historically accurate. I would like to think that I am not the only person who watches a movie to be entertained and not to get an education. So go see this movie and enjoy it for what it is, an historically inaccurate piece of fine entertainment.