Review by ads1212

Shocking. Ham fisted, vaudevillian and heightened, the auteur intrusion denied any chance of caring for anyone. Some great crew on this too.... Mandy Walker as DOP must have really had to trust director Baz with such appalling continuity and realism. Some of her wide shots were inspiring but the insistence of lighting the CU's with such full light - in the supposed middle of the harsh desert, was just jarring. Chris Godfrey, as SFX supervisor must have really had to trust Baz's urging to allow such obviously poor matte paintings and poor composites. Even the lens focal lengths between plate and foreground were out of kilter. Obviously Baz's homage to poor FX of the 1930-40's. I was expecting see little clay-mation monsters pop onto the screen a la JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS, circa 1950s. Oh Baz oh Baz Oh Baz. The story the story, the story. We must at least be thankful that David Lean is dead so he didn't have to witness such obliteration of the The Epic. What a shame.... There goes the neighbourhood.