I cannot stress how BAD this film is (but I'll try)

Rating: 1/10 (4 October 2005)

Some reviews of this movie will try to tell you that this film will only appeal to intelligent people.
This insinuates that anyone who hates this film must be unintelligent without any appreciation for art or different ways of cinematically portraying a subject matter.
DO NOT ALLOW YOURSELF TO BE SWAYED BY PEOPLE SUCH AS THIS.
This film is drivel of the first order. To this day, it remains the benchmark by which I measure all other films. I call it 'the thin red line factor' i.e. - How many times would I want to watch a given movie (back to back) before having to watch the TRL even ONCE? Eg - Star Wars scores something like a 12. Rambo III scores maybe a 2.
Yes, that right - I would rather watch Rambo III twice over than sit through the TRL even once.
THIS FILM IS THAT BAD.
Do not allow other people to tell you this movie is worthwhile. It isn't. It has no redeeming features.
The film studio knew this and had to vastly over-egg the cast line-up just to pull punters in. George Clooney was the headline name in the UK and only appeared at the very end for maybe thirty seconds.
I have NEVER before or since been in a film where the audience was leaving in droves. After about an hour, there was a steady stream of people leaving and actually heckling at the screen on their way out.
Are you getting the picture yet of just how bad this film is? The plot is there but could be told in half an hour but instead is drawn out over THREE hours with wildlife shots, bad poetry and cut-scenes that have very little bearing on anything.
The result is a film that is so mind numbingly slow and pretentious that all you end up doing is resenting the director for force feeding us his so called vision without once thinking about how his audience might be interpreting his inane ramblings.
Insecure people who pretended to like this film will tell you how 'real' it makes the horror of war. GARBAGE - If you want reality of war (as much as you can get in a film anyway) then watch SP RYAN or BAND OF BROTHERS.
I used to put great store in the IMDb rating system until I saw this film rated a 7.2
Do not be fooled. You will never get your three hours back. As someone else has rightly said - it's too late for me but you can still save yourself.