i wish more movie be two hour long . on the other hand and i wish more american civil war movie be merely two hour long . go with the wind and gettysburg that about the length i have come to expect while although those two at least entertain for however many hour they last while and even gettysburg last as long a it do because thing happen in the course of it . by contrast ang lee film be bloat and uneventful . it actually feel a if it take much less than two hour . that wasn not a compliment . it really no different to any other form of sensory deprivation represent at the time it feel a though it will never end and afterwards it seem to have take no time at all . the film get off on the wrong foot and a lee play his interminable credit over the opening footage ( bad mistake ) in which we be introduce to some character we take an instant dislike to and will later come to loathe . the central two be jake and the son of german immigrant who be staunch supporter of lincoln and and jack and an equally staunch southerner whose value jake share . ( i have to re read that sentence to make sure i hadn not write jack instead of jake at some point or vice versa . ) the two go off to become bushwhacker southern militia who so strongly lust after revenge and violence that they can not even be bother to join the official southern army and which i presume they think be for sissy . i be afraid lee lose me right there . it easy to feel for character who make moral mistake represent if we have some independent reason to like them and or feel a if we know them in some way and then their moral flaw can make u care for them all the more . not so here . we aren not properly introduce to jake for at least an hour while when we be and it become clear he a gormless pimple of a man and who isn not a confederate by choice so much a by habit the kind of person who say and do what everyone around him say and do and whose psychology be purely immitative . the people he associate with be either just the same or positively evil in some uninteresting way . i find myself cheer whenever the northern cavalry appear on the screen . i thought represent good kill the rebel and end the damned war and let me go home . aggravate this problem be the horrible and horrible dialogue . everyone speak in the same whining southern accent . i have hear accent from all over the english speaking world and this be the bad of them all . i do not care if southerner really do talk like that and it simply not fair to ask an audience to listen to it for two hour . and believe me and we do listen to it for the full two hour represent lee picture be a talky one and largely because character take so long to say what they mean in their ungrammatical and say everything three time and folksy drawl . it would help if they talk faster and but not much . can not these people find a more efficient language in which to communicate . in short represent the film be little but a gallery of uniformly unattractive character with no inner life and who talk in an offensively ugly mode of speech and who do not bathe often enough and to whom nothing of interest happens and despite their be involve in a war . good point . jewel be nice to look at and and so be the scenery . but i have complaint even here . the cinematography and nicely frame and look a if someone have susbtituted colour film for black and white by mistake while and a for jewel and we be tease with her body and but never actually allow to gaze upon it and which i think be the least we be owe .