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Outlaw King

2018

David Mackenzie

Chris Pine, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Billy Howle, Florence Pugh ...

6.2

7,120

Adventure. Drama Scotland, year 1304. An epic period drama that will tell a different version than Braveheart did on Robert The Bruce, the king who led his country to freedom from the oppressive rule of England in Scotland. This is the untold, true story of Robert The Bruce who transformed from defeated nobleman, to reluctant King, to outlaw hero over the course of an extraordinary year. Forced into battle in order to save his family, his people and his ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"On one hand, 'Outlaw King' feels terribly oversimplified, while on the other, it still fails to connect on a basic character level"	NEG
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Bold and watchable, with a spectacular final battle scene shot with flair (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	David Fear Rolling Stone	"[It] makes you pine (sorry) for the days when studios invested in actual epics instead of franchises (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"Pine is fully committed to Robert's mission, but the film has a hard time making him a compelling character (...) Even at its best nobody's going to mistake this for 'Braveheart'"	NEG
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"A monotonous slog (...) Mackenzie is one of three writers credited on 'Outlaw King'; it’s evident that its problems started on the page and were so deeply ingrained that he never found a way to direct his way around them"	NEG
United Kingdom	Wendy Ide Screendaily	"It’s at the moment when they finally stop running and stand their ground that the film reaches it’s bravura climax (...) It’s a superb piece of action cinema"	POS
United Kingdom	Charles Bramesco The Guardian	"The historical epic exists as a delivery system for swords-and-shields clashes (...) Despite all the pained faces, this script gives Robert the Bruce no more depth than a paragraph in a history textbook (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"I often marveled at the scope of the production (...) All of this well-meaning effort to waste on a film that never finds the right tone to connect with viewers (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Jim Vejvoda IGN	"A beautiful-looking but uneven historical drama featuring an uncertain lead performance from Pine (...) It's entertaining and engaging but it never really seems sure of itself."	NEU
United States	Matt Donnelly The Wrap	"The film boasts gorgeous cinematography (...) No one has more fun here than Pine, he’s at home in the character"	POS
United States	Matt Goldberg Collider	"I don’t expect 'Outlaw King' to be 100% or even 50% historically accurate. But I do expect it to be interesting, and time and again the movie opts for the simplistic rather than the complex."	NEG

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