What a waste of time

Rating: 1/10 (30 July 2000)

Along with "Battlefield Earth," this is one of the worst films of 2000.
The dialogue is downright hokey - "Stay the course/I have run my course" - the acting is awful except for Chris Cooper and the film is nothing more than overwrought melodrama.
Funny that it took a German to make a purely corny American film. There are moments in this film that are so cornball, it's hard to imagine the filmmakers were not laughing hysterically as they shot those sequences.
For instance (SPOILER WARNING)... When Mel comes galloping along with the American flag his son was sewing to rally the forces; or the boy laying dead with the wooden gun his father had given him inches from his hand - please, this is supposed to be dramatic?