That's 3 hours I'm not getting back.

Rating: 1/10 (16 June 2003)

I first saw this film in 2000, expecting a decent movie. Unfortunately, that isn't what I got. I got a gross-out fest. This movie isn't very good. It's made by the same people who wrote Godzilla.
The first problem with this movie is that it's on the gory side. Yes, I know that war is like that. Problem is, unlike other movies like Saving Private Ryan, the gore here just comes off as a pathetic attempt to shock you, and just ends up making you nauseous instead of giving actual insight into the nature of war.
The second problem is that it isn't historically accurate. Tivington, from the accounts I've heard, wasn't a bloodthirsty lunatic. From what I hear, he was a typical British 1700s officer. Also, Gibson's character was originally going to be based on a real person, but the director found out that the person who Gibson would be based on married his teenage cousin, and raped his slaves.
Also, one other thing that annoyed me: There's one scene where Tivington fires a pistol at a cavalry rider about 1,500 feet away. He hits him. You'd have trouble getting that kind of range on one of today's pistols, much less one from the Revolutionary War.
Rating: 2.5 out of 10