This is one BAD movie

Rating: 1/10 (18 July 2000)

I have a lot of bile to spew out about this film, but I haven't the time to do it. For now, let it suffice for me to say that casting Mel Gibson, Chris Cooper, Rene Auberjoinois, and Tom Wilkinson to read lines drenched in such pure dreck is the film equivalent of casting Meryl Streep, Susan Sarandon, and Kathy Bates in a commercial where they sit around at a party talking about the virtues of Carefree Panty Shields. What a piece of garbage this film was. Bad writing, very bad directing, and unquestionably and unconscionably bad historical accuracy add up to the worst film I have seen since The Alpha Incident (although The Other Sister was close). STAY AWAY!!! STAY FAR AWAY!!! Stay home and rent Being John Malkovich or if you must see an epic about fathers, sons and war, rent RAN by Akira Kurosawa.