Movie Reviews for Gettysburg (Widescreen Edition)

Gettysburg (Widescreen Edition)

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Movie Reviews of Gettysburg (Widescreen Edition)

Movie Review: LOVED IT!!!!!!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars

Gettysburg may seem kinda long for most people, but it is defenitley worth the time! I have watched it many, many times over! Civil war buff or not, you need to watch it!

Movie Review: Fine depiction of three days of horror and honor...
Summary: 5 Stars

I think the four-hour saga of "Gettysburg" might be one of Ted Turner's enduring positive gifts to the world. This is worth seeing just for the performances of Jeff Daniels as Joshua Chamberlain, the heroic Yankee, and Kevin Conway as Sgt. Buster Kilrain, the non-commissioned officer who saw his worth and gave him confidence. The fact that it was filmed on the actual battlefield (with modern roads, buildings and monuments erased via computer) is a plus. It is a balanced mixture of talk, both brave and brooding, and action, both glorious and gory.

Movie Review: Fix Bayonets!
Summary: 1 Stars

Until the action sequences and battle simulations, this thing plods. The script is very poor. Martin Sheen turns in another wooden portrayal. It had to be long to cover the three days of battle, but basically the only worthwhile aspect is the action, beginning with the struggle on Little Round Top. Using reenactors and authentic locations was about the only good idea at work in this thing. Despite all that, probably worth seeing, just for the action, and here and there some of the performances.

Movie Review: A Pretty Good Rendition of the Battle
Summary: 4 Stars

The pace was a bit slow at times - some judicious editing was needed and not applied. There was also way too much focus on the two generals who were past friends opposing each other and too little focus on some other key aspects other than Stuart's delay in getting there, the Chamberlain's Maine brigade heroics on Little Round Top and Pickett's Charge. It is curious that director R. Maxwell's later effort "Gods and Generals" some 10 years later [about the start of the Civil War to May 1963], is considerably worse. See my other review on that film.