Appalling

Rating: 1/10 (9 March 2007)

This was one of the worst historical epics I have ever seen. I have no idea as to whether it is accurate or not, that didn't bother me; what did was the appalling script, appalling editing, and appalling direction, the film had an incredible cast, bar Brad Pitt and Orlando Bloom who really cannot act at all, the rest of the cast was squandered with appalling clichéd chunks of dialogue. I had to turn it off after 30 minutes. My advice leave well alone there are far better films to watch than this. This was an example of a film devised by committee. A studio sees a number of hits in the historical battle epic genre, so they decide to copy it. They cast it with some great character actors and a couple of leads who are often on magazines covers, throw hundreds of millions of dollars at it for marketing and then expect a hit movie. Contriving a film in that way can never be a success unless of course its the first installment of a comic book franchise, and even then not all of those are successes.