Teringer
An Exercise In Nonsense
Gary
The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.
ghcheese
Once again I sit here a watch a movie that is supposed to be history. Sadly the bias in Hollywood movie making is cringe worthy. Once again we the people of the United States are reduced to bigots. This time to Irish Catholics. There is some truth to the story. But it is slanted to teach you how awful we are.
oldpapi
After "Far and Away", this must be the most embarrassing film about Irishmen to come out of America. Apart from the sentimental and meandering storyline, the awful accents (which seemed to change from scene to scene) and stereotyped portrayal of the Irish soldiers made for a excruciating TWO hours. The political situation in Mexico, which is central to a clear understanding of the story, was never made clear and the soldiers seemed to be as much at sea about why they were fighting as are the audience watching them! The actors seemed to be totally lacking in conviction and the final scene where Marta is draped with the unit flag and made look like an old Irish Mammy is unintentionally hilarious in its bad taste. A film to avoid. Life is too short!
grasshopper_60619
I saw the movie, One Man's Hero at Chicago State University in 2002 or 03,on cable, and I enjoyed the movie. Althrough One Man's Hero had some historical inaccuracies, it is symbolic of the period in American History that have few coverage. I enjoyed the scenes with the battle of Churubusco and Chapeltepuc Castle. Nevertheless, more description of the Battle of Buena Vista, and the actual desertion of the soldiers should been presented. The movie, One Man's Hero, should be shown on available time periods on CBS, NBC,PBS, and UPN or CW.In addition, more movies about the Mexican War 1846-1848 should be made in Hollywood, such as Shaara's book, Gone for Soldiers, for big screen and/or television.
George Parker
"One Man's Hero" tells of the Saint Patty's Battalion of dissident Irish soldiers who fought for Mexico during the American-Mexican war of 1846-1848 and their leader, John Reilly (Berenger). This very mediocre film tries to do too much with a story which is fundamentally not very interesting as war stories go while spicing it up with a fictional and lame romance. Generally a poor production, "OMH" gives us little reason to care about any of the characters, features a typically shallow performance by Berenger, and wanders off into an esoteric bit of history which is of little interest to most. This film is to Irish-Americans as "Glory" was to African-Americans but fails where "Glory" succeeded.
