| Gods and Generals Review |
| by Jon Popick (Rating: 3/10) |
| Gods and Generals, the prequel to Gettysburg and the first episode in an
epic but non-sequential Civil War trilogy, is only slightly shorter than the
war itself. Once you factor in the trailers, the commercials and the
intermission, this will be an...more |
| Gods and Generals Review |
| by Mark R. Leeper (Rating: 8/10) |
| CAPSULE: This film has been generally rejected
by the critics; nonetheless history buffs may
find GODS AND GENERALS is a compelling look at
the first two years of the Civil War seen, as
it rarely is, from the Confederate...more |
| Gods and Generals Review |
| by Susan Granger (Rating: 6/10) |
| Susan Granger's review of "Gods and Generals" (Warner Bros.)
Running close to four hours, including intermission, this landmark epic
of the Civil War is, basically, a television mini-series released as a feature
film. Adapted from Jeff Shaara's...more |
| Gods and Generals Review |
| by Laura Clifford (Rating: D+) |
| Abraham Lincoln offered Colonel Robert E. Lee (Robert Duvall) command
of the Federal Army, called to arms to put down the rebellious secessionists,
but Lee chose instead to take the offer of his home state of Virginia and
stand
against the Union. Each...more |
| Gods and Generals Review |
| by Steve Rhodes (Rating: 1/4) |
| If you love GETTYSBURG, as I do, you won't want to waste a minute, much less
almost four hours, on this monstrosity, a newly devised prequel to the 1993
film. It may be by the same writer and director, Ronald F. Maxwell, but GODS
AND GENERALS, with its...more |
| Gods and Generals Review |
| by Robin Clifford (Rating: C) |
| In 1993, Ted Turner turned the late Michael Shaara's Civil War novel The
Killer Angels into a battlefield film epic about the turning point of
that historic conflict with "Gettysburg." The same production team has
tackled son Jeff Shaara's prequel about...more |
