Good adventure but flawed history.

Rating: 7/10 (27 December 2000)

Although, the film was enjoyable and the actors excellent, I felt that the script was written with 21st century attitudes, not 19th. Often dialogue was glaringly modern as for example when a character says "It's a free country (pause), or at least it will be". This is a modern phrase and I doubt that anyone in the middle of a revolution in that time would have ever even thought in these terms.
Also, I felt that African-American characters and their interactions with the white characters were treated in a "politically correct" modern idiom, rather then a 19th century one.
As a lover of history and with a special interest in the revolutionary era, I found these types of errors really irritating, and although I can recommend the film as a good adventure, it has very little to do with reality.