For about the first two-thirds of this film, I kind of loved it. Aside from an errant opening scene, it was a proper mixture of updating setting, some basic character work, and some absolutely marvelous cinematic stylings that made the most of its eponymous character’s minimal screentime. Then its final third pushes things a little too unintentionally silly. Still, Alan Gibson finds a better application of his skills with this script by Don Houghton, an effort by Warner Bros. to get Hammer t...
Published on September 01, 2026 04:03