It's so bad that I have nothing good to say about either Peter O'Toole or Charlotte Rampling, who have both risen far above bad material in the past. But there really no material here that's less that excreble above which to rise--O'Toole plow through his repetitive mononlogue for HOURS, while Rampling wears what I suppose was the matron version of the Stoic mask.a Young Octavian and young Agrippa remain mercilessly forgettable, but such is not the case with Maecenas--he is so over-the-top that he makes Richard Simmon's at the height of his fame look like a Sloth on barbitutuates. And their costumes .. . oh, my! hBut wait, everyone's costumes are either bizarre, borrowed from Walmart's Linens and Bedroom shop, or come from a Euro/Pound/or Dollars store. Poor actors! he The scenery and set dressing's no better, for it would seem Rome only had one dark, dirty, and dangerous alley, which also served as its only daytime sunlight-filled, clean, and jolly alleyway. And all the marble stuctures look like chalk, which is better than the wooden Julius Caeser who inspired this utter banality. never
Review of Augustus: The First Emperor
