splendidchap

There's a good movie premise here but loose direction causes it to ruined by hysterical, shouty, self-indulgent over-acting by the main players. One of the few exceptions is William Bendix who, as ever, delivers a solid performance that puts his fellow thespians to shame.

Remarkably, a historic and dramatic real life event has been rendered stultifyingly dull. The acting is utterly wooden and the script appears to have been written by an AI robot using Google Translate. And, as for telling the story using interpretative dance, words fail me.

Forsyth's Day of the Jackal is a great book and film. This is no Jackal. The plot should deliver a good movie but the script, acting, and direction are woeful. The script is so wooden it's like listening to a succession of pre-recorded railway station announcements. Such a disappointing movie.