Visually it is truly the most incredible spectacle committed to film. However the story was thin and unoriginal and the first half of the script was appalling. Lazy use of, and overly lengthy, voice over for exposition, including one random line of voice over from no where about two thirds of the way in. Script writing 101 is show it, don't say it.
Just because it's the highest grossing doesn't mean it's well made. Pretty to my eyes, a creative vacuum to my brain.
Lin Ford (Charlie Hunnam) is meant to be an Australian expat, and yet sounds more like a South Afrikaan (and the international media somehow laudes Hunnam for nailing the Australian accent). How can we take it seriously, if someone who is meant to be an Aussie, is literally half a world away and sounds like a Springbok? :confused:
