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A Very Poorly made/acted/written movie

posted 7 years ago by sartor023
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I was surprised at the 6.6 rating here on IMDB.. I gave it a 2/10..

Very poor writing acting and direction. The costumes were sometimes gaudy, and set design was bare and simple, with no effort to really create a unique look for a period piece. It was tough to enjoy the film in it's simplistic and hurried plot lines..

All in all, a sparse, very basic almost childish attempt at a period piece I felt..

A waste of time.

[–] liscarkat (16434) 7 years ago

For me, the best part of the movie was the costumes and settings. However, the unusual device of quickly inserting characters by captioned portraits, rather than as part of plot development, coupled with fast talking and stage whispering, did not result in a very coherent film. There were also a couple of examples of very flat, nearly amateurish acting, and at least one instance of cringe-inducing overacting. While having some merit, this is ultimately a far less than perfect movie.