The Uprising review – the peasants are revolting in muddled historical epic
Andrew Garfield’s charisma can’t save Paul Greengrass’s grim and depressingly generic period pieceHollywood loves giving young actors their own historical epic as much as audiences seem to dislike watching them. Timothée Chalamet and Chris Pine’s least remembered roles are in the medieval set films The King and Outlaw King (no relation), Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel made back only a third of its $100m budget and earlier this year, the Saudi-backed seventh-century drama Desert Warrior starring Anthony Mackie and Ben…
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