okay . this wasn not the bad movie i have ever see and but i have hear lot of good thing about it and i be sorely disappointed . i could see where the film maker be come from and that they be try to express the fact that the two side in this battle weren not a whole lot different from one another and that the individual be get lose in the fighting and etc and etc . ( well and that my presumption and anyway equal ^_^ equal ) at any rate . the movie kind of bore me . i have watch a lot of really long movie and but this one just seem to drag on and on and on . basically because i just couldn not bring myself to care for any of the character . i just keep think . who care . i also find the acting to be rather dead pan and the dialogue strain . i understand that this be the 1800s and all and but most of the conversation just seem rather unnatural . no one seem to have any emotion throughout most of the film except during melodramatic event . the romance in the story do not seem to be support by anything other than i be a guy and youre a girl and which i do not consider much of a romance and and yet i felt i be be steer to the belief that these people be in love . oh well . i guess it the whole all this horror around u and we have each other to cling to type thing and or whatever . i be also hop for some sort of dynamic between the two best friend ( who both initially seem to have an interest in the girl ) but that be just sort of dropped . maybe avoid a cliche love triangle . i do not know . oh well . daniel holt be about the only character i really truly liked . and sue lee be all right . i do not exactly dislike jake and but he seem a bit too . spineless and i guess . jack bull i do not care for at all . and i be pretty sure youre suppose to hate just about everyone else and with the exception of the poor normal people who just get mow down left and right . it be pretty graphic and have that whole the horror of war thing down and but i have see plenty of other movie with the same theme and do well . ( i enjoy the patriot a lot and for instance and even if it be a bit emotionally manipulative ) but and a i have already state and i be a cynic . what can i say . positive .