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Title: The Charge is very Light indeed!
Review: Others have written about the storyline so I won't get into that here. With a film like this, you anxiously wait for the climax which is of course the charge of all those British into the history books. Save your money and your time. The charge in this version is the biggest dud since Madonna's film career. You sit there and ask yourself what everyone got so excited about. At least in the version with Errol Flynn you had some semblance of men blindly (if herocally and stupidly) charging to their deaths. You don't even see much here though. The charge itself is a dull cantor with awful editing and by the time its over all you feel is a great let-down. There's no grand sweep which we expect in films like this and nothing that even comes close to the historic feel the poem about the 600 inspires. Buy the Flynn movie. It may not be history but it's awfully exciting!
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