A waste of an hour and a half

Rating: 1/10 (24 November 2007)

I was so looking forward to this film. I read the book by Valerio Massimo Manfredi about 4 or 5 years ago and when i heard it was going to be a film i was delighted but now i have seen it i feel so let down. The story has been so diluted that it makes no sense. Epic journeys that they undertake are over in the time it takes to change the position your sat in and characters which are important to the story just seem to have been overlooked. They have made this film without giving any of the characters a foundation and this just led me to find it all a bit forced.
Sometimes i complain when a film is too long but with this it could have done with at least an other forty five minutes, in fact i found it too short. I don't understand how a love interest can happen in the click of a finger yet they had time to try to put comedy into a fantasy epic ( and i use the word very lightly ).
The script is poor The cinematography is poor The direction is poor The casting is so so