Sword of Vengeance **
Dir: Jim Weedon.
With: Stanley Weber, Annabelle Wallis, Ed Skrein, Karel Roden. 87 mins. Cert:
15
As opportunistic Game of Thrones cash-ins go, this
perversely watchable low-budget quickie at least improves upon its producers’
risible Hammer of the Gods. It has
Stanley Weber’s lone warrior – sporting precision cornrows that suggest some
Norman-era equivalent of Aveda – falling in with Northern rebels to repel
William the Conqueror’s forces, here rendered as thirty blokes stood about a
muddy, foggy field in Serbia. The action is circumscribed more through
necessity than choice: though director Jim Weedon lends his one-on-ones a
brooding ad-land style, he’s forced to frame pitched battles in medium-close
shots so as to disguise the poor turnout. Modest post-pub fun, nevertheless.
Sword of Vengeance opens in selected cinemas from today, ahead of its DVD release on Monday.
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