Gods & Generals

Gods & Generals
by Ronald F. Maxwell

Gods & Generals
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Actor: George Allen, Jeff Daniels, Mark Aldrich, Robert Duvall, Stephen Lang
Director: Ronald F. Maxwell
Brand: Warner Brothers
Writer: Ronald F. Maxwell
Producer: Dennis E. Frye
Producer: Jeff Shaara
Writer: Jeff Shaara
Producer: Mace Neufeld
Producer: Moctesuma Esparza
Producer: Nick Grillo
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 231 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-07-15
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video

Movie Reviews of Gods & Generals

Movie Review: Incredibly bad
Summary: 1 Stars

This film really is jaw-droppingly bad, with no redeeming feature whatever. The script is clunkingly abysmal, with feeble dialogue and characters periodically obliged to deliver paragraphs of pre-school-standard historical explanation. There is an incomprehensible Irish theme to it, which originates, I suppose, in the novel (not that I am remotely tempted to read it, after seeing the film), that gave birth to this abomination. There is no point in commenting on the acting, since even an actor as great as Robert Duvall has no chance to excel in this morass. "Gettysburg" was cinematic roadkill. What on earth persuaded anyone that the world needed any more of the same?

Summary of Gods & Generals

A sweeping epic charting the early years of the Civil War and how campaigns unfolded from Manassas to the Battle of Fredericksburg, this prequel to the film Gettysburg explores the motivations of the combatants and examines the lives of those who waited at home.

The more you know about the Civil War, the more you'll appreciate Gods and Generals and the painstaking attention to detail that Gettysburg writer-director Ronald F. Maxwell has invested in this academically respectable 220-minute historical pageant. In adapting Jeffrey Shaara's 1996 novel (encompassing events of 1861-63, specifically the Virginian battles of Bull Run, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville), Maxwell sacrifices depth for scope while focusing on the devoutly religious "Stonewall" Jackson (Stephen Lang), whose Confederate campaigns endear him to Gen. Robert E. Lee (Robert Duvall, giving the film's most subtle performance). Battles are impeccably recreated using 7,500 Civil War re-enactors and sanitized PG-13 violence, their authenticity compromised by tasteful discretion and endless scenes of grandiloquent dialogue. Still, as the first part of a trilogy that ends with The Last Full Measure, this is a superbly crafted, instantly essential film for Civil War study. For all its misguided priorities, Gods and Generals is a noble effort, honoring faith and patriotism with the kind of reverence that has all but vanished from American film - but provides abundant proof that historical accuracy is no guarantee of great storytelling. --Jeff Shannon

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