Mel Gibsons Epic Popcorn Movie!!!!!!!

Rating: Null/10 (30 October 2000)

Well Yet again the team of Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin hype up another movie like a powder keg and when it is finally a finished product it deflates like a cheap party baloon.
I don't blame the writer Robert Rodat(Saving Private Ryan) his work was good and the story had structure, but the delivery was not translated well by Emerich and Devlin. I also thought that the movie lacked intensity, it dealt with really deep moments but it was like watching rambo when he decided to take revenge on his enemys. Finally besides Gibson and Jason Issaacs, most of the other actors seemed stiff and boring. Heath Ledger was obviously brought in for his looks and not for his talent.
But to say the movie was horrible would be wrong: as I mentioned before Gibson and Issacs performances were admirable and I also liked the way Roland kept the hell of war theme going with this one by showing the gruesomeness of it, much like Rodat's first war movie "Saving Private Ryan".
My recommendation for this movie is to see it for yourself because I believe this movie can appeal to the public as much as they can be reviled by it. So roll the dice and take your chance.