Saturday, April 15, 2006

The Reckoning (2003)

Synopsis: A defrocked priest joins a group of traveling actors, and investigates a murder. 
Appraisal: This is not so exciting as a criminal or mystery tale and as a period piece is either extremely uninformed or deliberately anachronistic. At one point a character says: "The people has the right to know." Very improbable sentence considering this is 1380 and the ideas of Illuminism would only appear 4 centuries later. Perhaps the author wants to discuss modern issues in a medieval context. Anyway, the film has bigger problems than that, like the often unimaginative script. 
Rating: 39

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