Dull

Rating: 3/10 (27 May 2007)

Lots of noise, lots of people shouting "fire" (then shouting "fire" again and again), lots of people swinging from one boat to another - and then back to the boat they were on in the first place (just stay where you are) lots of people double crossing or backstabbing lots of other people to the point of absurdity, lots of Mackenzie Crook's eye falling out, lots of money spent, lots of people going "awwww" every time the monkey picked up a gun, a hat or did anything, lots of needless characters who need not be there and lots of - at best- mediocre acting from an ill-looking, wooden Knightly. Not much else though.
I feel for the idiot responsible for putting the opening scene together: A 'Family Film' beginning with rows of people being executed & bodies slung in one mass pile, one of which is a child. The misjudgement of that decision, only forgotten due to the bigger cock-up, namely that the child had a 21st century brace in his teeth!
On the plusses, it was still better than the second one, though hardly an achievement, and we were the ONLY 2 of 500 in the cinema, who saw that Elizabeth and Will had a child and who he was, which seemed a bit odd for bigger fans of the film than me to be so desperate to get out and miss the last two minutes & the whole conclusion.