A Bad Reworking of Fall of the Roman Empire

Rating: 2/10 (26 February 2004)

I happen to love films about the ancient world. This one isnt about Ancient Rome. Its about costumes from a road company production of AIDA and sets using Biedermier furniture instead of researching the period. Its about blurry filters over the lenses. Its about a pathetically boring music score and the use of huge suffocating close ups for emotional intensity. Its about blurry computer generated reconstructions and a cloddish leading performance. The Release Print that I saw was bluish and soft focus. After seeing films like BEN HUR in Ultra Panavision 70 and six channel sound in the sixties, you have no idea how outrageously disappointed I was with this overrated "Ridley Scott" garbage.