It's a bit of a mess. So much talent available but the pacing and story telling just aren't we working. If you you can't convey the story visually then you resort to lazy narrating as O Russell does. It just totters around trying to be cute and righteous at the same time without success. Perhaps O Russell saw a Wes Anderson film and thought 'I could do that' .

Sadly, he doesn't have the talent and my guess would be he has a poor sense of humour.

Painting whole sections of the film yellow doesn't really help. Just another poor directorial decision. I imagine it was to convey that this is set in olden times? Yeh, we got that.

Robie is great, of course, but Bale is trying way too hard.