This movie is bad. It feels like a film which has no idea what it is, carelessly assembled from individual scenes that add very little to one another. Take each piece of the quilt on its own and they are not bad, some are even good. Taken as a whole you will find yourself asking the same question repeatedly: Why do I care? At many points it is obvious how James is trying to advance the story, you can see and understand the reasoning behind decisions. It is done so clumsily, though, that you are never engaged in a well crafted story, you just see the component parts of an attempt at one.

As far as spectacle goes, this film has plenty. You can tell they spent a quarter of a billion on it. By the time three hours is up the novelty will have worn off.