Rating of
2/4
Indyfreak - wrote on 12/14/16
The Free State of Jones is a well made historical drama whose heart is in the right place and has all the right stuff to make a worthwhile war epic. But ultimately it doesn't work. I thought people were joking about the pacing but damn this was a slow-as-molasses flick to sit through. The acting is fine and the cinematography is beautiful. It is clear that director Gary Ross intended for this to be a more intellectual version of Roland Emmerich's 2000 release The Patriot. Melodramatic as that was, it did its first task as entertainment as I was never bored.
