It gets a bit better towards the end

Rating: 5/10 (25 June 2008)

The beginning of the film is dry, but it gets a bit more intense as the film goes on. The acting for the most part is really quite horrible and stunted, save for Portman's performance (it actually evolves...what a concept). The rest of the actors would have seemed more natural if they had been reading from a teleprompter. Johannsen (sp?) plays the same mopey character she always plays, Bana has done much better, and the others should go back to TV soaps. Portman definitely carries the film, and makes it worth watching. I don't even like her that much normally, so it means something for me to say that.
As for the accuracy of the film, it never portrayed itself as a historically accurate portrayal. It is an adaptation of a book written by an author who is entertaining but not a historian. The film makes a bit more historical sense if you watch the deleted scenes - most of them really should have been left in.