
The rise and fall of confederate general Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, as he meets with military success against the Union from 1861 to 1863, when he is accidentally killed by his own soldiers.... (Full plot summary below)
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The rise and fall of confederate general Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, as he meets with military success against the Union from 1861 to 1863, when he is accidentally killed by his own soldiers.
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| Journal News (Westchester, NY)Marshall FineJust an overextended historical pageant: lifeless tableaux, assembled under the mistaken impression that bigger and longer is the same as important and interesting. |
| Laramie Movie ScopeRobert RotenUnlike 'Gettysburg,' however, 'Gods and Generals' is slow-moving and stilted and is punctuated by speeches rather than drama and action. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanA trial to sit through: stiff, ponderous, fluttering in its 'poetry,' and crudely simplistic as an apologia for the Confederate ideology. |
| Reeling ReviewsRobin CliffordIt amazes me that the production team that produced the fine "Gettysburg" are the same ones involved with "Gods and Generals." |
| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekAn honorable try, but also a trying picture...While the battle recreations are expertly done, everything else in the movie has a stilted, historical-pageant feel. |
| Film Journal InternationalBruce FeldNot showing any of the negatives of slavery costs Gods and Generals a good deal of credibility. |
| Metro Times (Detroit, MI)Anita SchmaltzA more appropriate title would be The Great Whitewashing of the Rebellion. |
| Decent Films GuideSteven D. GreydanusEverybody is so good and decent that it's hard to tell where the generals leave off and the gods start. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonHas the unfortunate effect of overtipping the dramatic scales in favor of the Southern generals and turning almost everybody into waxen idols who spout flowery rhetoric. |
| Milwaukee Journal SentinelDave TianenSo long-winded that it sometimes feels like the Civil War in real time. |