A dismal flop without a Mel Brooks.

Rating: 2/10 (30 April 2016)

I suspect the folks behind this film wanted to make a "Mel Brooks" type film, but with too much making fun of religion and inside humor only progressive Hollyweird-types might condone, the film falls too flat to recommend as anything more than a doorstop the film canisters might make.
Too often in the past we have seen otherwise good actors involved as a means to lend a legitimacy to bad films. This is one of those. George Clooney may have done his part as a favor to somebody, I doubt it was out of boredom, and he certainly gained nothing from the film. For me, the ONLY redeeming value was the attempt to make a "period piece", which I love, but this is very, very far from making up the plethora of things the film lacked.