Missed the Mark Normally I enjoy Ridley Scott a great deal. This was not one of those times. First off, it starts out going back and forward in time, which is not a bad device but these snips are so severely edited, the story is rendered in short chops rather than important vignettes: one minute Jean meets the girl and the next scene he's discussing the dowery with her father. We just have to assume there was a romance in there somewhere.
The dialogue is so clunky, I wondered if it wouldn't have been better if they just stopped the pretense of trying to use medieval language. It only serves to emphasize the wooden and unconvincing characters.
Affleck seems like he's trying to portray a Roman demigod and Damon is a churlish middle-child with a mullet so bad it's a constant distraction.
I was so annoyed with the incongruity and bad editing, I turned it off after 30 minutes.