Written by Luke Barnes
Summary
A band of mercenaries become bound up in the future of Bohemia.
On the one hand I praise this film for telling a new and fresh tale, and one in which many outside of the area, myself included, would have probably never heard of. It is nice to see lesser known historical figures get their screen adaptions over yet another film about Robert The Bruce or some Wild West Outlaw.
However, on the other hand this film is a very cliched sort of historical epic and the way in which the story is told, and more importantly acted, is nothing to write home about and lacks any kind of freshness. Ben Foster is doing his best to try and hold things together, an argument could be made that they should have got a Czech actor to play a famous national figure, but they wanted the star power of Foster to try and boost the profile of the film I’d guess. Michael Caine and Matthew Goode, both have some good moments of scenery chewing, but are used far too infrequently to have any real impact.
Overall, watchable and fresh to a degree but sadly weighed down by epic genre cliches.
Pros.
Showing lesser known historical tales
It is watchable
Foster, Caine and Goode
Cons.
Pacing
It feels very cliched
Some of the cast are very underused
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