There's no denying that Emmerich's film, though a good half hour too long, keeps us watching.
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New York PostJonathan Foreman
New York PostJonathan Foreman
While the film contains some terrific, realistically bloody battle scenes, it has a distinctly Germanic feel, both in its epic heaviness and in the peculiar way it revises the history of the American Revolution.
Undeniably handsome..., but no cliché is left unturned, right down to the spray of toy soldiers falling from the hand of a dead child. Everything old isn't new again.
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Film.comSean Means
Film.comSean Means
Trots out more flag-waving wartime cliches than any movie since John Wayne's "The Alamo."