Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Outlaw King (2018)

Director: David Mackenzie. Cast: Chris Pine, Stephen Dillane, Rebecca Robin. 121 min. Rated R. 121 min. UK/USA. Biography/War.

Strange. This Robert Bruce biography doesn't avoid becoming a Braveheart sequel; it's actually dying to become one. It goes beyond beautiful swooping panoramas of the Scotland countryside for the story of a quiet man with fire in his eyes who's pushed over the edge ... to include a "Hoooold! Hoooold!"scene with horses impaled on sharpened poles (I kid you not). So if you're going down that route, Chris Pine is no Mel Gibson, and King Edward I here is not even a shadow of King Edward 'Longshanks' there. Sequels should attempt an identity of their own - not become a copy.

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