some nice pictures, but what a slimy story!

Rating: 5/10 (4 August 2000)

The trouble with this movie is that it has been directed by a non-US director who exaggeratedly tries to chum up with Americans in order to make big money. Hopefully, he will not earn other credit than that. The movie lacks historical precision and puts the English in an almost Nazi-like role. Well, I know how it feels like to watch expensive movies which draw a black-and-white picture, where all your ancestors are on the black side. Still, the first one and a half hours are mostly entertaining and have some fairly enjoyable scenes, which even seem to stick to historical detail. But the end of the movie could have been placed at least half an hour earlier, for every bit of the story was very clear after the first hour of the film. I give some points for the juicy gore effects, but after all only 5/10 in total.