A dull affair Cast: Guillaume Canet, Gilles Lellouche, Vincent Cassel, Marion Cotillard, Jonathan Cohen and Jason Chicandier Rating: 0.5/5...
A dull affair
Cast: Guillaume Canet, Gilles Lellouche, Vincent Cassel, Marion Cotillard, Jonathan Cohen and Jason Chicandier
Rating: 0.5/5
With a budget of $72.4 million, the locations, the stunts, and the
costumes are grand but the writing and direction simply aren’t. The jokes don’t
land and the characterisation is next to nil. The film wants us to laugh along with
it but instead, we laugh at it. It’s a family entertainer in concept but just
trash in reality.
The story is simple enough. Gallic
heroes and forever friends Asterix and Obelix journey to China to help Princess
Sa See save the Empress and her land from a nefarious prince, but the execution
is tedious.
The presence of Vincent Cassel and
Marion Cotillard remains a mystery. Both actors have proved time and again how
accomplished they are then why have they humiliated themselves by being associated with this film? Was it perhaps an astronomical pay package, we wonder? Both deliver the
worst performances of their careers, but at least make the film watchable for a
minute or so.
The English dubbed version of this French
film makes it all the more unfunny. The dialogues were so cheesy and the dubbing
artists were terrible while delivering even the simplest of dialogues.
The direction, the screenplay, and the
performances all are downright bad with the cinematography bland and generic.
Only the colour grading is passable.
Asterix and Obelix: The Middle Kingdom will go down in history
as one of the few films so badly made that you would want to stop reading the comic it
was based on.
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