Awful on so many levels

Rating: 1/10 (17 January 2009)

I'll make this short (which the movie wasn't as i watched the 3.25 hr Director's Cut). As mentioned by many, the movie is historically inaccurate. But honestly I didn't care; I wasn't in for a history lesson, i wanted to be entertained. By a movie. I was bored to tears. The acting is terrible, notably by Brad Pitt. I have come to expect more from him, and here he was out of place as was pretty much everyone else. Except Eric Bana, who was decent and I felt bad for him for being surrounded by such wooden actors. Brian Cox must have thought he was in a different film than his costars, as he chewed the scenery in nothing short of "ham". Costumes, terrible, looked like a made for TV film. Music, uninspired. Direction choppy and boring. 'Nuff said, don't invest your time, unless you are the sort who giggles at Brad's bum.