Pitiful

Rating: 5/10 (21 July 2000)

This movie fails in almost every way Braveheart succeeded.

It's the kind of movie that's blind to most aspects of the war (and the time during the war) just to paint a picture. It's contrived the way The Green Mile was.
Folks, many of the British soldiers didn't want to fight. Folks, black people were still slaves after the Revolutionary war. Yes, it's nice to see the black soldier and white soldier get along, but what does it mean? Nothing. And, c'mon. A 10 minute battlescene at the end without no outside involvement? That final fight scene was just plain dumb.
There were some great scenes and this could have been a great movie. Instead it tries to force emotions and when you catch a movie doing that, it then falls flat on its face.