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To call this Brit flick too clever by half, flatters it.

The audience is taken from delight to despair, while never truly losing its grin.

Dominated... by a compelling, passionate, thoughtful and unforgiving performance from Denzel Washington.

There's a proper sense of adventure and the scale of the story is appropriate for a great legend. Unfortunately the sword it all revolves around looks as if it came from Poundstretcher.

Edgar keeps things 'real', with the violence brutal but believable and with psychological underpinnings that are more complex than the average gangland thriller.

Class effects, dashing adventure, a load of laughs and non-stop action.

Visual surprises make up for the absurdity of the storyline.

With acting this wooden one might as well be watching a puppet show.

The facts are twisted out of recognition.

The main source of tension here is between the two girls and their one-upmanship is well handled but even older child audiences are likely to find the general lack of any sort of danger a bit of a turn off.

Once one strips away its future dystopian trappings, this is a fairly straightforward western.

It's fairly formulaic, but it delivers a fair tribute for fans who remember how those days felt, and an important, if simplistic, picture of a time and place.

e concept is inspired and the realisation, with its complexities and double takes and juxtapositions, never feels forced.