matthewgreenan

It's just a really bad remake of Saving Private Ryan. The bunker scene without the bunker, the same church scene without the church, the same first meeting of private ryan just without a tank, the same scene deciding to fight just without a rustic French village and if i'm not mistaken the same music and dialog. Obviously the writer/director would get a F if this was a school assignment which it looks like, but in the real world I'm surprised he hasn't been sued by Steven Spielberg.

It would be a 1 star bad acting, bad plot etc, but the psychic made me laugh so I gave it 2 stars.

I love history and I love watching historical films. Sadly enough this is not a historical film. The costumes were beautiful and the acting was okay, but the nauseating social justice was byond belief and looked more like an artistic piece of activist propaganda rather than a historical film. Black lady's-in-waiting, black advisors, black nobelman, Elizabeth Hardwick turned into a Chinese woman (probably aimed at the Chinese audiences), her husband was gay and well David Rizzio was a flamboyant gay crossdresser and apparently in 1500 Scotland the Catholic's were all okay with that.

As for the rest it was completely historically inaccurate and mind numbingly boring. At least the earlier bastardization of Scottish history "Braveheart" was actually an interesting enjoyable film which didn't have to stoop to adding minorities to win social justice inclusion points.