To little butter for too much bread

Rating: 4/10 (2 March 2002)

Far be it for me to sound un-patriotic, but I felt almost nothing during this entire movie. Somehow we were supposed to really care about these characters when we barely even got to know them. I mean, how many different stories are you going to try and lay on us at once? At least in the case of say, The Thin Red Line, we weren't supposed to feel extra sorry when one person died as opposed to the hundred other guys just because we show one extra minute of them. I felt that the movie was generally hollow compared to so many other war movies on a whole. And the "montage" of Barry Pepper's photography. I thought I was going to wet my self laughing it was so cheesy. I almost felt more connected to his character in Battlefield Earth. Well, almost.
My only postive comment was that the battle scenes were excellently filmed. Just would have liked to have a character or two who didn't seem like they were "acting" the entire time.