Not worth it

Rating: 1/10 (5 July 2000)

I was looking forward to seeing this movie, but about halfway through found it to be too formulaic and sadistic.
The only way it deterred from all of the other typical historic action movies was that the "brutal act done to an innocent to get the hero (and audience) all riled up against the stereotypically evil-without-any-spec-of-decency bad guy" was repeated again and again and again and again...
Every time you think this movie couldn't sink any lower, another horrific act of brutality against helpless innocent people is committed.
Okay, already, we get the point, enough.
Manipulating an audience with cheap tactics like these is a cop-out on a real storyline.
Most of the sadistic scenes in the second half of the movie could have been edited out and it would have been a better movie for it.
Even without the unnecessary and continuous slaughter of civilians, we would've still rooted for the Americans. Give us some credit.