Top actors, top budget, brilliant director equals mediocre film?

Rating: 2/10 (29 February 2020)

Sit down get out the popcorn and await the great cinema experience. Yes the actors are good, not great but good, but do remember that is why they are paid so much, to deliver every time. So it is a given that great actors and a great director will deliver a punchy cinematic peace of genius. The film relies heavily on some spurious history, glorifying people that created misery where ever they went. This is not a new concept and ordinances do like blood and guts and some sinister dark hero figures to imagine that they could interact with in real life, but with the obvious caveat that that would never happen because these people are just animals in the real world. If you take the famous faces out and the big budget, what kind of story are you left with, it is slow and painful, a rewrite of a thousand that went before and doesn't leave you thinking anything apart from maybe lets go to the pub and have a drink before they shut if you happened to see a late show. As always each to their own and if you enjoy it? then that is all that matters, but was it worth your hard earnt cash and would you want to sit through it again? Is the question I ask myself and the answer in my case is quite simple no.