Gods and Generals

  • 2003


MOVIE IS idiosyncratic meticulously divergent powerful unsentimental
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30 %
8 % Rotten
$ 12 Million
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Positive Reviews 8
Negative reviews 28
Average Rating 2.0/5
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1.5
Adapted by Ronald Maxwell from the book by Jeff Shaara (whose fathers novel The Killer Angels served as Gettysburgs basis), Gods has a lot of ground t .. Av Club
1.0
Ideas about economics and slavery often take a back seat to godly devotions and traditions. Austin Chronicle
2.0
Even when Jackson is felled by a bullet from his own side it doesnt stir a sense of outrage. Screen Daily
1.9
The kind of movie beloved by people who never go to the movies, because they are primarily interested in something else the Civil War, for example and .. Rogerebert
1.9
BEYOND WORDS Multimedia View trailer to Gods and Generals Photo gallery: Central Park warriors recreate Chancellorsville Ye Gods!.What a drawn out and .. Usa Today
2.5
Unlike Gettysburg, however, Gods and Generals is slow moving and stilted and is punctuated by speeches rather than drama and action. Lariat
2.8
Three hours and 40 minutes is excessive even for a great movie, and if the movies only so so, its enough to make you want to secede from the theater. Eric Ds Nider
1.0
Only the staunchest Civil War buffs will make sense of all the battlesBull Run, Fredricksburg, Chancellorsvilleand the blur of uniforms, beards and si .. News Review
1.8
Thats especially true since its easy to pick out the myriad of Civil War re enactors from the real thespians and most everything comes off like a hist .. Screen It
2.0
An interesting film weakened by ham fisted writing and direction and heavy handed revisionism. Shadows On The Wall
1.3
Gods and generals are special.This is the second installment in Ronald F. Maxwells projected Civil War trilogy, and at 225 minutes long, it feels like .. Cs Monitor
4.0
That is ultimately the lesson of this epic tale of a profoundly religious and incredibly gifted general. Film Journal
2.5
Every shot is fired in sorrow, and there are no villains except, of course, for the politicians, who remain safely out of the frame. Smh
0.5
All too often, everything stops so people can stand around a piano and sing. Mountain X
1.5
A real life heir to Lee, Duvalls sedated performance adds little weight to the story or drama to his ancestors great challenge. Reel Talk Reviews
1.8
It would be nice to say that the battles are powerful, but instead they are draped in Civil War buff authenticity without so much as a drop of carnage .. Ew
2.0
This TV epic, getting a theatrical outing over here perhaps to tie in with American Independence Day, prequelises the same teams Gettysburg and covers .. Empire
3.0
Sometimes, what is best for history is not best for drama and here, the filmmakers relentless even handedness removes whatever drama the story might h .. Common Sense Media
1.3
Alls well in a sweet finish that saves this as a good old fashioned love story. Sf Gate
1.0
A decade later, Maxwell returns to the fray with this bloated epic. Bbc
2.0
If that implies that Gods and Generals is not itself a full measure, but instead only a half or third, Maxwell will have accomplished the impossible o .. Slant Magazine
1.0
GODS and Generals is less a movie than a meticulously, tediously accurate Civil War reenactment committed to celluloid. Washington Post
2.5
One doesnt come away from it with any sense of what the victory cost in human terms or what its like to face a rank of men shooting at you, or to jam .. Washington Post
2.5
It amazes me that the production team that produced the fine Gettysburg are the same ones involved with Gods and Generals. Reeling Reviews
1.5
So full of its own importance and with so little reason that the reaction it invites most often, apart from indifference, is derisive laughter. Flickfilosopher
2.5
Unsentimental, non glamorized, and unclouded by the usual overlay of rose colored nostalgia, this is a raw but rewarding motion picture. ReelViews
2.0
Movies offer us wildly divergent stories with vivid, close up emotions, and so did the six fimmakers we invited to take part in the Envelope Directors .. Calendar Live
1.3
Instead Gods and Generals holds no resonance whatsoever meticulously plotting out the details and making this decisive moment in American history inte .. Hollywood
2.8
Latest Entertainment Videos History buffs will enjoy its lavishly staged battle sequences and rich visual evocation of the doomed ante bellum South, b .. Seattle Pi
1.9
All but gone are the weaknesses of character, in men of both sides, acknowledged in Gettysburg: everyone is thoroughly stolid, upstanding and nobleat .. Groucho Reviews
2.5
But the story has no narrative arc and nothing driving it other than a faithful recreation of Civil War minutiae. Spliced Wire
3.1
Gods and Generals is the prequel to the four hour 1993 Civil War epic Gettysburg. Movie Habit
2.0
It was made strictly by and for Civil War buffs who insist that every pious speech and every skirmish is worthy of filming, even if the end result suf .. The Star
2.5
Scene by scene, the plot for Gods and Generals can be, cruelly but accurately, summarized as follows: Then that sequence repeats . . . for nearly four .. Deseret News
5.0
These are again the images of a stylish and sweeping epic with attention to detail as its priority. Urban Cine File
1.3
But, if youre not a history or civil war buff, youre not likely to come out of this trench of ineffectual movie making with much enlightenment or stim .. Varia Gate
2.0
If split into TV episodes Gods and Generals would be a far more compelling experience for US Civil War novices, but despite the mammoth running time, .. Raidió Teilifís Éireann
2.0
Kansas City, Kan., native and pop star Janelle Monae came to the Starlight Theater for her first headlining show in five years, giving an astounding p .. Kansas City
4.0
While the film is technically beautiful, its construction betrays some strange and, dare I say, desperate choices. Film Quips Online
2.2
While Gone With the Wind is filled with unlikable characters, Gods and Generals is filled with nothing but likable characters.They may disagree. Decent Films
1.0
With only enough real story to only fill about two hours, Maxwell tries to make itself an epic by padding the film so much that it drags. Fat Guys At The Movies
2.5
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1.9
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2.5
Its a safe bet that no one attending that night will be waiting in line for The Last Full Measure should it ever be filmed. Nitrate Online
3.5
I was sorry when I learned that Michaels, the well known childrens hair cutting salon at Madison Avenue and 90th Street, went out of business recently .. Ny Observer
2.5
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