lemon-bishop

Sad, sad, sad!

I will start with my part of 'expertise', music: I saw a trailer comparing this production to 'Gladiator'. Comparing to Hans Zimmer, Gladiator, here, the music was so out of any coherence, ranging from ever heard big tuttis (but badly written), to preclassical clichees and eastern sounding (slavik, but, again, badly written and badly performed) choirs.

The acting of both main and supporting characters was so empty, from time to time you can see extras just looking as they were out of that film (see the moment in church when the priest names him emperor).

The photography direction is very chaotic, from ultra saturated colours to quasi black and white moments.

I saw this at mall with the dolby atmos option and the sound, also, was so incoherently done: from the beginning with all the music (soundtrack) mixed to the very center (mono like), to moments when strange dogs or horse can be heard to the extreme left or left behind. Even CGI is poor (see the Asterliz battle, the tens with the fires look so much like copy/paste).

Conclusion: in no way comes this film near the Gladiator. NO WAY! Joaquin Phoenix knows only one gimmick, Russell Crowe is a complex actor.

I truely looked for some value to evaluate this film with more than the 1 star imdb forces you to offer, but i couldn't find. From me, 1/10.

I feel a new level of imbecility has been reached. Congratulation! The badge is available for pick up at the registration desk.

Beside the omnipresent cliches and mandatory social minorities, this new little baby outstands through arrogance and self conciousness.

I was intrigued by another Mel Gilbson 3/10 film and I watched it carefully till the end.

I would have give it a 6/10, but I gave it 7/10 just to compensate the mean 1/10s.

Pro: 1. Great sound/very good music 2. Great acting from the main characters: Gibson, Isaacs, Mulroney.

3. Good story/good action scenes

Con: 1. Some editing flaws 2. The low-light scenes are a bit much 3. Locations seem cheap from time to time 4. Poor acting from the secondary actors.

HiHiHi!!! It got so bad, people don't even bother give it a 1/10 rating. So the PR bots don't have to compensate with 10/10 or 9/10 rating. It simply fades into unexistence... my God, it's bad! It looks like they even cut the lights budget: bleak and uncoloured.

Hard to describe it, but we all know it: imbecility!

Please, do not trust me! Just watch the first episode or just the first 5 minutes of the first episode!

Ps I just don' t understand why such a big network as showtime would involve with such an imbecility!

Eh...