Rotten
Lee appears to have been torn between making a character study and an action movie, so both elements get short shrift.
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Ride with the Devil
In a No-man's Land between North and South, You didn't fight for the Blue or the Grey... You fought for your friends and family.
1999 · 2h 18m · R
Drama, Romance, War, Western
Directed by
Ang Lee
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Ride with the Devil
Overview
Friends Jake and Jack Bull join up with Civil War guerrilla fighters, yet after the realities of war set in, they must decide what honor truly means.
Director and cast
- Ang Lee Director
- Skeet Ulrich as Jack Bull Chiles
- Tobey Maguire as Jake Roedel
- Jewel as Sue Lee Shelley
- Jeffrey Wright as Daniel Holt
- Simon Baker as George Clyde
- Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Pitt Mackeson
- Tom Wilkinson as Orton Brown
- Jim Caviezel as Black John
- Tom Guiry as Riley Crawford
- Jonathan Brandis as Cave Wyatt
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
65%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The intriguing (if not always successful) result is an oddly contemplative picture about a horribly bellicose time.
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
Fresh
Ang Lee is amazing.
Peter Brunette, Film.com
Fresh
A sublime contemplation of the American character at a particularly revealing time in our struggle to become a nation.
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Rotten
Oddly distant and uninvolving for such a blazing subject.
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
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