The movie's made-for-TV status militates against a convincingly brutal presentation of the battle scenes...

It's a movie that parades authenticity, but never settles on its own point of view.

Gettysburg succeeds as a motion picture event, and as a re-creation of a pivotal chapter of American history.

Gettysburg remains an ambitious and frequently impressive attempt to bring one of the Civil War’s defining battles to the screen with scale and detail that few films have matched.