I agree it was well acted and the cinematography was great. I think a mini-series would have been better - they could have covered more and perhaps not strayed so far into conjecture, summarization, and dramatization of the history to tell a story in 2 hours (more or less).


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>>>>Change of subject -- have you seen "Breach"? Pretty good flick. Chris Cooper as Robert Hanssen is creepier than anyone I have seen in a movie recently, even mass murderers.
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>>>No, but it sounded like something I would like and I have always liked him. I am still reeling from how massively disappointed I was in The Good Shephard
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>>By coincidence the latter arrived from Netflix a day or two before you said before how much you hated it. I figured you would know so just put it back in the mailbox unwatched. I don't remember if you said why you didn't like it. Was it because of inaccuracies or some other reason?
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>See my reply to Tracy. Hey, let's make a movie about WWII but instead of characters like FDR, Churchill, Hitler, Stalin, Patton, Rommel, Zhukov we'll just make up characters and battles that are "composites" "based on" real events. Extremely well made and well acted and incredibly badly conceived.