Title: Mostly Special Effects - Bad Script
Product review: I watched this movie because a so-called medieval expert said the sets were authentic. I wonder if he was talking about the Norman assault craft modeled after WWII Higgins boats with drop-down bow ramps. Even the action and special effects were disappointing, where close-in combat is so murky, chaotic and confused it's impossible to follow who is getting whacked. But the greatest disappointment was the script, so bad I don't know where to begin. Couldn't the writers have made a stab at historical verisimilitude? Big epics like this cover a multitude of sins, the worst being the relentless resort to cliche. It's hard to believe this is the same Ridley Scott who produced "The Good Wife."
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