Good start, but then it gets ruined

A Major Disappointment

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

This is yet another perfect example of very good movies being remade when there was no need to do a remake. The original 1971 movie is far and above a much better film, hands down. Critics were harsh in their review of Sofia's acting in The Godfather Part III, which I did not feel were warranted. That being said, her work behind the camera makes her acting chops appear even better. This is yet another Hollywood liberal whitewash of the past, even if it is fictional in its detailed context. God forbid a 2017 movie show a black woman slave or the intense sexual fantasies and encounters in the original film. Trying to rewrite history by sugarcoating what actually happened is yet another reason 21st Century Americans are turning out to be ignorant cowards. The star power this movie has can not save an unsatisfactory screenplay, direction and production. Another giant miss rehash by Hollywood just like The Longest Yard, The Getaway, Psycho, The Manchurian Candidate, The Goodbye Girl, etc.

War-torn Virginia, 1864. A wounded Union soldier is found by a local girl and finds shelter at a girls' school. Their intention is to nurse him back to health and then send him on his way but over time the relationship becomes more complicated.Directed by Sofia Coppola, not bad, but not that good either. The original movie, released in 1971, was directed by Don Siegel and starred Clint Eastwood as the Union solider. While not brilliant, it was reasonably engaging and had a clever, powerful twist at the end.This, the 2017 version, is not overly engaging, feeling quite dry, a purely linear telling of events. The plot isn't exactly the same as the 1971 movie, effectively adding another act beyond the conclusion of Sigel's movie. The added-on portion is fairly interesting, but the conclusion doesn't pack the same punch that Siegel's movie did.

Just awful compared to 1971. All this does is give crews and actors a pay check ... I hated it. Fast forwarded most of the time. Just a bad remake. Bad.

I'll give this movie as much time on the review as it deserves since it already wasted so much of my time. HORRIBLE & BORING. To bad because it was filled with a very talented cast.