Like a National Geographic installment without the interesting dialog.

Rating: 1/10 (16 January 1999)

I was very disappointed in this movie. I wasn't expecting "Saving Private Ryan" or any other war film but what I was expecting, was a movie. War may be tedious, but a movie shouldn't be. Not long into the movie, the gratuitous nature shots got old real quickly (thus my comparison to National Geo). So little time was spent on any one character that there was no one that you felt interested in. The opening (I don't call him main) character spent most of the movie looking like a wet-eyed seal with this somber expression on his face - I almost thought he was a mute. The movie which may have tried to be either uplifting or spiritual was neither. I have to admit, I've only walked out of 1 movie before (Prospero's Books) and I was more than tempted to walk out on this one. Disappointing effort by what should have been an ensemble cast.