Parts of the story are gripping, the other parts I slept through. The acting was about as good as one could expect from such a bad script. Is the guy who played the art historian in Downtown Abbey in dire straights? There were far too many contemporary idioms. I've often said when seeing the directorial efforts of Ben Hecht and Preston Sturgis that they should have been chained behind their typewriters. I think the reverse may apply to whoever directed this. The ethnic mix of the cast was suspiciously contemporary for a world that only had muscle power. The plot was difficult to follow because of the time jumps and dream sequences. The one really good thing was the production design. It did look like a different world at a renaissance tech level.

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