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To be fair, I made it through almost 20 minutes... including ads. It's not even good military satire - we have the tired supply sergeant/hustler and long-haired overweight private tropes, nobody's hair anywhere near regulation length (including the hard-core colonel), and ridiculously overblinged uniforms. Welcome appearances by Joe Morton and Catherine Tate are nice, although her Dutch accent sounds silly. The father- daughter dynamic - well, it's perhaps more credible than the show's basic premise, but that is a pretty low bar. As a fan of Leary's I was really hoping for something showcasing his talents. What I saw showcased TV's desperation to do ANYTHING to fill a time slot. Kudos to whoever actually sold the network on this, they can obviously polish a turd to previously unknown levels.

Reasonably well written, ok performances. Historically superficial and somewhat inaccurate. For instance. Custer proclaimed he graduated last in his West Point class, a popular fallacy. He graduated 34th of 108.

Whoever ran the props department obviously "phoned it in." Jesse James' gang robbed a bank in 1869 carrying guns not made unttil 1873. Cavalry troops had 1873 rifles when slauhtered in 1868. Believe I even saw 1890s vintage Winchesters used by Indians in the 1860s. Having read "The Outlaw Trail" several times, I expected better from a Robert Redford project - this reminded me more of something thrown together by Alec Balwin.

Been a fan of Sandra Bullock's since Love Potion #9 - been a few clinkers, but I seriously never thought she would do one like this. At 58, is she trying to relive her earlier success? Hard to say. Brad Pitt and Channing Tatum have moments (very few!) and the lack of chemistry is painfully apparent. The action is stilted, the plot is incredibly derivative. Imagine the worst moments of The Rundown (well, at least it was fun!) Indiana Jones 2 and 4, the few bad parts of Romancing the Stone, mash them together with Daniel Radcliffe as a colorlessly unthreatening guy. Oh, and Sandra pretty much phones in her part, too. Find something better to do for two hours, like watching paint dry.