Someone shoot the messenger, please.
His is a big budget clunker, which has some energetic, if confusing, battle scenes to liven things up. Monsieur Besson donned armor and helmet himself, jumping into the fray and filming the battling actors up close and personal. Swords and axes lope off limbs, arrows fly and boiling oil is flung over the walls. My favorite medieval weapon, however, is the giant ball which, when unleashed, knocks down soldiers like so many bowling pins. She proved to be quite scenic in his sci-fi epic, The Fifth Element , but just doesn't have the authority to carry off this role.