Handsome Tosh

Rating: 3/10 (10 June 2012)

I've been beaten to the punch on more flaws in this film than I could even recall without the reviews' prompting. It's a fine-looking film, as you'd expect, but remarkably inane given its heritage and the hopes so many had invested in it. Just how stupid it is can be read elsewhere in these pages far better than I could summarise.
At least this epic fail should kill off all the guff about "Ridley Scott, SciFi visionary blah blah". With all his experience and clout, that he can helm something like this, and talk it up so brazenly, suggests he hasn't learnt anything other than a scaled-up version of his cigar-chomping ad- making captain-of-industry shtick.