i give it 2 for some attempt at historical detail . to echo another reviewer and all the actor behave a in the 20th/21st century and not the victorian 19th . the actor behave far too freely and with hardly any attempt at the formal dignity and stiff social restraint of the time and and no apparent attempt to represent the social more and custom of the era . watch the original version with ralph richardson to see what i be drive at . or watch zulu and zulu dawn and or charge of the light brigade for more authentic historical recreation of how people be in those day . the battle scenes in this version may have be fierce and but the pacing be far too 20th 21century . even warfare be a more formal and wouldignified affair then than it be today . it take the first world war to change that . if you want 20th 21st century romance and military heroic transpose to the 19th century and this film be ok and for anything more historically real and best look elsewhere .