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Rubbish and unfunny script, poor direction, bad acting. Even Eddie Murphy is bad here - bland, boring and unfunny, while Eva Longoria is completely wasted here as an actress. It's very lazy fimmaking, disrespectful to the viewers' intelligence. Probably AI wrote the screenplay in a few hours and then they shot the entire thing in just a few days.

I am disappointed by this movie. Expected brilliance but there isn't any. The script is rather poor and simplistic. Oda Nobunaga is presented as a deviant tyrant and psycho, with no shades of anything else, there's nothing to him that would indicate why that man has conquered and ruled most of Japan. It doesn't help that the actor in the role is overacting horribly. Other actors do a slightly better job but they are all poorly and superficially written. They are just figurines in the political intrigue. Costumes and weaponry are nice but budget limitations are very clear and sometimes the movie looks like it was made for TV.

Meh. What a disappointment. It's amazing that a movie about ancient Rome, filled with violence and political intrigue, is... boring. I thought it was impossible but I was wrong. I think there are two main reasons: 1. A very stupid script - naive, predictable and full of poor dialogue. This script is probably even worse than for "Napoleon". Scott and his screenwriter Scarpa seem to think that the IQ and the general knowledge of an average movie-goer are very low. 2. Poor direction. Scott didn't do a good job with this movie, despite a huge budget and lavish costumes it looks almost like a TV movie or a movie made straight for streaming. Even the combat scenes aren't really well directed, which is very rare for Ridley.