Klunky

Rating: 3/10 (5 November 2000)

A worthy effort from the director of INDEPENDENCE DAY. Meaning, it stinks.
The klunky, predictable plot creaks and lumbers along.... and along.... and along. One minor point is that the movie is about twice as long as it should be.
Historical accuracy? Fuhgeddaboudit. But this is not the only way it was incaccurate. It also made human reactions programmatic and stylized. And the acting didn't help any. The best job of acting was by the bad guy, Jason Isaacs (His character, I believe, was modelled on the actual General Banastre Tarleton)
So what's a good war movie? How about Kubrick's PATHS OF GLORY? Or THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE? Or BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI? Or RAN? Or A WALK IN THE SUN? Or PATTON? And there are a number of others.