Andersonville
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Movie Reviews of Andersonville
Movie Review: Civil War movie review
Summary: 4 Stars
Fairly well done movie on a terrible subject!! Not for the squeamish, or diehard Rebel fans.Movie Review: Compelling and harsh, but not uplifting
Summary: 3 Stars
This is the story of the largest Confederate POW camp housing Union prisoners during the Civil War. It is a tragic story of men placed in inhuman conditions where approximately one-third of them would perish. There was little food, no clean water save rainwater, horrendous overcrowding, disease, crime, and brutality. The German POW camps for allied prisoners had a far better survival rate than did Andersonville. (Not to be confused with the Nazi concentration camps.)
This story takes the position that while much blame for the terrible conditions was due to Southern shortages of food and supplies, a principal cause was sheer brutality of the Southern prison administration. I do not know if this is true; some reviewers here state that such is not the case. It is true that late in the Civil War both sides had a great deal of animus, particularly in the South since most of the war and devastation took place there. Thus, it is plausible that bad feeling between guards and prisoners led to the abuse depicted here.
This is largely a tragic and downbeat story, with some moments of uplifting drama. The camp is incredibly realistic; the viewer truly becomes transported into the horrendous conditions existing in the stockade. Although there are no major actors in this film, the acting is nevertheless very good. Overall, this is a powerful film but unfortunately a depressing one.
Movie Review: not bad
Summary: 3 Stars
when i bought this, i thought it would be different. i am a little disappointed with it.Movie Review: Andersonville
Summary: 3 Stars
History of the event of the Civil War. Not the greatest but I did enjoy.Movie Review: A disappointment: fails to live up to promise
Summary: 2 Stars
I'm not a Civil War scholar, so I'll defer to reviewers with greater knowledge about the accuracy of what is portrayed in the film. As a film, however, this one is lacking in many ways, from hyper-melodramatic voice-overs to noticeably poor editing. When combined with inaccurate history, the disappointment is doubled. Andersonville was directed by John Frankenheimer, who created many good or great films, one of which, The Manchurian Candidate, is a masterpiece. With his resume, I have to believe that the intentions of the movie-makers were good, but the end product (a made-for-TV movie) reflects an inferior medium. A story as naturally powerful and important as Andersonville deserves a greater commitment to realism, and the drama should have been derived from historically accurate fact.
Instead, the drama was manufactured--history was dramatized. It's a film that deserves to be made again, re-written by someone with a commitment to accuracy and produced by a company more interested in the best available version of the truth than in pandering to an audience of supposed dullards with second-rate pap. When stories like Andersonville are not told with excellence, the fall into mediocrity is precipitous and leaves me feeling that the story should not have been filmed at all.