This movie had a chance to present the main topic of honoring the real life cadets, and their sacrifice to serve in the Civil War. Unfortunately, this film tried to reach too far. Most of the back stories watered down any chance for this film to retain any sense of cohesion. They all lacked any sophistication of presentation. Additionally, those same back stories were presented in a fashion that would captivate today's teen audience. Sparkly vampires, Harry Potter, that sort of thing. Sorry teens, however, times were very different obviously from today. Mostly Hollywood tries, and fails to romanticize the Civil War and that conflict of our Nations History was far from romantic, but I digress.
The Back stories tried too hard, and again slowed the timing and flow of the film, and just when you thought it may pick up, it slooows down. Perhaps the most hokey, and pretentious part of the film was when the commanding general sat with the cadets on the evening before the battle... (face palm).
The battle scenes were not very well edited either, and the battle was not presented in any real coherent fashion, except for the end of the battle, and even then I was waiting for the cliché finger point, you know the one that you see in football movies? O_o
Still, I did watch it beginning to end, and if it wasn't raining buckets outside (which at times was more interesting) I think I would have found something else to do.
My apologies to every involved with this film, however this was not a good effort at presentation at all.
The Back stories tried too hard, and again slowed the timing and flow of the film, and just when you thought it may pick up, it slooows down. Perhaps the most hokey, and pretentious part of the film was when the commanding general sat with the cadets on the evening before the battle... (face palm).
The battle scenes were not very well edited either, and the battle was not presented in any real coherent fashion, except for the end of the battle, and even then I was waiting for the cliché finger point, you know the one that you see in football movies? O_o
Still, I did watch it beginning to end, and if it wasn't raining buckets outside (which at times was more interesting) I think I would have found something else to do.
My apologies to every involved with this film, however this was not a good effort at presentation at all.