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'Historically inaccurate epic in Scottish nationalism, sentimental romance, machismo heroics and over-the-top brutality, a vanity project if ever there was one' | |
'And so it raises the question: If racism is so pervasive in our society, why do we need such an elaborately contrived plot to drive home the message?' | |
'Lacking confidence in the characters, the director forces a half-assed Bollywood aesthetic on them, making the colors pop and changing camera angles every 2 minutes' | |
'Cost: well over $200m. Disregarding the ethics of such expenditure on a film, this unprecedented extravagance has not resulted in sophisticated or even satisfying storytelling' | |
'It's a second movie made largely out of the bits and pieces of the novel that didn't fit into the first. It's a Frankenstein's monster stitched together from leftover parts.' | |
'It's such a laborious conveyance of eye-filling outdoor spectacle - displays of endless desert - we know little more about this man when it is over than we did when it begins' | |
'An urban crime thriller which won undeserved acclaim for its efficient but unremarkable elevated-railway chase and its clumsy, showy emphasis on grainy, sordid realism.' | |
'The result resembles one of Neil Simon's middlebrow romps more than it does As You Like It.' | |
'Manipulative, demeans religious trust and Catholicity, is anti-hope, anti-family, pro euthanasia propaganda, brutalizes femininity, and is terminally depressing.' | |
'There were a few exciting moments in this poorly acted and overlong melodramatic spectacle, such as the 40 minute climatic chariot race in the Roman Circus' | |
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