Best Picture? You gotta be kidding!!

Rating: 1/10 (1 July 2003)

I cannot understand how this truly lousy movie won best picture of the year. It never ceases to amaze me how current directors and producers continue to regurgitate good movies from the past into the current excrement that stinks up movie screens today. Ridley Scott doesn't even know how to frame a scene of sweeping spectacle. He may as well have been doing a TV commercial. They obviously spent millions on scenery but he never showed what they built. Whereas Martin Scorsese can make a few million spent on a set look like a billion dollars--Gangs of New York, Age of Innocence, New York, New York. Joaquin Phoenix is more campy than Joan Collins at her campiest.