And yet more proof I'll watch Sharlto Copley do almost anything, even a money job. I am clearly impervious to learning. This witless contraption was directed and co-written by Rupert Wyatt; Erica Beeney, Gary Ross and David Self helped with the script. Over two nights as it's clearly made for the second screen.
On paper Anthony Mackie leads in this pre-apocalyptic Saudi-Arabian-funded non-MCU/non-Mad Max fiasco as a lethal bandit but actually second bean/Queen Aiysha Hart (Mogul Mowgli (2020)) is who we're supposed to focus on. She got a lot of unvarying hard-faced/unyielding closeups. For unclear reasons (things got very wonky in the middle) she managed to corral a few tribes against Emperor Ben Kingsley's huge army led by Copley, both of whom play humourless heels. Things proceed as they must to the point of near fatal boredom. The music is very obtrusive.
Glenn Kenny saw more success than I did. Inevitably not Lawrence of Arabia (1962). Wikipedia.
