Summarize the following movie reviews:

1. Minghella crafts enough resonant, lyrical images to make the engrossing Cold Mountain a finely polished, emotionally harrowing epic.
2. Minghella overdirects the movie like Frazier overwrites the novel.
3. ... a good epic that tries too hard to be great.
4. Cold Mountain is . . . like a painting hanging in a museum. . .. It ignites your admiration, but fails to sufficiently seize your emotions.
5. This could have been a powerful war story, but under the surface it is contrived and unconvincing and the performances are uninvolving.
6. ...It does achieve, if only intermittently, the aching feelings of love and loss, for both country and countrymen, that Frazier depicted so unforgettably in his novel.
7. In spite of an entire film's worth of good intentions, you'll either love it or hate it based on the ending alone.
8. Not many movies have characters you can warm up to the way Cold Mountain does. That makes it a real treasure.
9. Despite fine work by Jude Law and Nicole Kidman, the story feels hollow at its core, the central romance barely resonating as the life-sustaining force it's meant to be.
10. Cold Mountain is set in frontier America, but it's staged in the wilderness of Romania! I knew something was wrong when the Confederacy declared war against Vlad the Impaler.

Summary:
The well-crafted Cold Mountain has an epic sweep and captures the horror and brutal hardship of war.