HMMMMMM, let's see here. Could it be the fact that they made a 3 hour movie out of a script that they could have been finished in about 15 minutes. Don't get me wrong it was a great picture and the cannon fight at the beginning was awesome but other than that it just seemed to drag, and drag, and drag, and....... well you get the point. Maybe if I had gone into the movie knowing that there would be 2 action scenes and the rest would be a long drawn out soap opera than I would have a different opinion about it. It was kind of like Troy, great movie but just not enough going on. Different strokes for different folks.