inconsequential and all a bit pointless

Rating: 6/10 (20 May 2006)

Nice cinematography and a surprisingly engaging albino baddie, along with a deliciously camp Sir Ian, in some great locations, but, er, but...
I think the trouble is that, after a good strong start, the story gets to be rather laboured, and ends up disappearing up its own rather imposing rear end. I ended up not caring who any of them were; a problem with plot defined characters and a rather complex and tendentious plot. If Jesus wanted to marry Mary Magdalen, er, why not? Why would Miss Neveu revealing herself as Jesus great great whatever heal all the wrongs of the world anyway? If you know the most basic factual information about the context, from Isaac Newton to the geography of London the whole thing just gets silly, really, in its own meandering pretentious way.