Remarkable...

Rating: 3/10 (7 January 2008)

Remarkable indeed that a film can make the French Revolutiuon dull! This is one of the most pointless films I have seen in months. The characters may have been huge hisrtorical figures. In this movie they have all the "elan" of cardboard cutouts. And what's with all the rock and roll music? Did I miss something in history class? I thought rock started in the fifties. Nope. It's shot in lavish surroundings with lavish costumes. But it's deadly dull. We don't even get to hear Marie Antoinette hurl her defiant "let them eat cake" line ("cake" was an idiom of the day for horse manure) or see her get the chop on the guillotine. I used to think history class was boring. It was knuckle biting excitement next to this plodding, pitiful, pointless portrayal of lumpen history.