Rotten Tomatoes: 9% You should really have seen this mess coming a mile off: a small budgeted, politically important film about the Stonewall Riots sounds like a great idea. But having entirely unrestrained disaster movie specialist Roland Emmerich helm it was like inviting an elephant to build a house of cards. He just didn't have the right tools. The result of his earnest attempt at telling the important story is like a sub-par Forrest Gump without nuance, as he takes one of the most important moments in the history of homosexual identity in America and turns it into a sterile and offensively dull coming-of-age tale. And it really didn't help that those accusations of white-washing actually did seem to hold some weight. In the end, Emmerich's attraction to disaster was so strong that he ended up making one out of a movie.
