A baffling movie.

Rating: 2/10 (15 December 2002)

At the opening of this movie, I couldn't help but think I was watching "The Pirates of the Caribbean" with the garish "authentic" costumes and the cartoonish extras and the overdone production design. Unfortunately, this ride went on about two and a half hours longer than the Disneyland ride.

Throughout the entire movie, I was shuffling in my seat thinking about all the extras they had to wrangle and how much money they must have spent in production; never did I become engrossed in the story. The script weak all around. The acting (save for Mr. Day-Lewis) is forgettable. The music is intrusive.
While it's full of spectacle, the movie fails to impress.