Free State Of Jones

Directed by Gary Ross, and starring Matthew McConaughey, Free State of Jones is an epic action-drama set during the Civil War, and tells the story of defiant Southern farmer, Newt Knight, and his extraordinary armed rebellion against the Confederacy. Banding together with other small farmers and local slaves, Knight launched an uprising that led Jones County, Mississippi to secede from the Confederacy, creating a Free State of Jones. Knight continued his struggle into Reconstruction, distinguishing him as a compelling, if controversial, figure of defiance long beyond the War.

This movie couldn't really decide what it wanted to be.  It had you hooked right off the bat because it put you in the middle of a Civil War battle.   It looked gritty and realistic.  Then Newt decided to walk away from the war and the whole being on the run and forming the rebellion thing was great.  But then out of nowhere the movie went back and forth between some court case years later and the events of the rebellion.  This pretty much ruined the movie for me because I no longer felt like I was watching a Civil War version of Braveheart that I was surprisingly liking but it was half wannabe Braveheart and half wannabe A Few Good Men.  It made the movie very choppy and disconnected the audience from the hook it had created.

I wouldn't really recommend people checking this out.  It started off pretty good but then just kind of spiralled into a boring, when will this end type of movie.