Having nothing to deal with during that hard time before the rebel, a young courageous and intelligent British officer, makes his mind to resign, the thing that leads people to think that he is a cowardice one that leaves them in such times, so his friends send him four feathers, in order to courage him and inspire him to go back and gain his honor
A movie that lacks the jingoistic bravura of earlier editions ... but hasn't replaced it with meaningful historical revisionism appropriate to our post-colonial age.
Toronto Star
September 20, 2002
What's missing, crucially, is the passion required to make this unlikely tale work.