Ride with the Devil
The story takes place on a film set in the American Civil War.. It is about the life of four people who must fight for survival and for the truth in a place without rules.
26 February 1950, Piasa, Illinois, USA
10 October 1964, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
19 May 1964, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
5 February 1948, Wharfedale, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
12 February 1954, Englewood, New Jersey, USA
July 19, 2014
Like too many other young men in too many other wars, Maguire's Jake Roedel sees too much, and grows up too fast.April 26, 2010
the main characters, despite their various complexities, are never particularly compelling and therefore fail to draw us into (or help us make sense of) the film's abstract themesJanuary 01, 2000
Visually arresting but dramatically flat.October 21, 2007
'It ain't right; it ain't wrong; it just is.' That line, in a nutshell, pretty much sums up Ride with the Devil.January 01, 2000
Oddly distant and uninvolving for such a blazing subject.March 22, 2002
The intriguing (if not always successful) result is an oddly contemplative picture about a horribly bellicose time.January 01, 2000
The film is less than the sum of its parts.January 01, 2000
A film that would inspire useful discussion in a history class, but for ordinary moviegoers, it's slow and forbidding.May 01, 2010
The Lawrence massacre provides no catharsis, only a sense of despair at the state of the human condition and at young men turned psychopaths.January 15, 2005
This isn't the usual Civil War tale of learning to respect a man regardless of his race.... It's about how true freedom comes from love, from respect, and from self-sacrifice.November 06, 2002
Lee appears to have been torn between making a character study and an action movie, so both elements get short shrift.April 26, 2010
Bucolic scenes of men at rest in beautiful wild landscapes and families gathered over meals in manors and homesteads are shattered by battles...