Seeing it this weekend, with the wife. Hope it’s as good as I’ve been hearing, although I will be watching it for entertainment value only.
I don’t pay movie prices to be instructed, even in a conservative way. Story first. If the director manages to get a few good philosophical, theological, or political licks in, so much the better. But story first.
In general, I’d agree that movies needn’t be instructive. Entertaining & clean are usually enough. But great fiction has been dead for decades. It’s about time Hollywood chose one of the old themes (the French Revolution and individual heroism) and played it out truthfully. We Americans still believe in heroes, and both novels mentioned gave us the best of the lot.
I didn’t find it to be preachy.