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A fluffy and charming confection that has an enticing exterior without much substance on the inside.

One can't help but be swept up in the magnificence of it all.

Scenes hold so long, you wonder whether the director is out to lunch.

The pacing is agonisingly ponderous: in the screening I attended two ents got up and left.

Benedict Cumberbatch lends this cruel, ancient dragon all the gravitas and otherworldliness that Sean Connery utterly failed to in Dragonheart.

Owen is fine when looking moody, but not so good when given dialogue - it seems too staged, too deliberate.

Excruciating first date dialogue

By the standards of television drama Messiah is quite a stylish and lavish - if very much by the numbers - production.

This is a film full of notions about the way dreams shape our personal stories as much as being shaped by them.

Disbelief is suspended by a thread so fine it is in danger of snapping almost constantly.

Scott is out to blast fresh air through the fusty drawing rooms of costume drama.

It becomes quite grim and, although by no means perfect, uses the genre expectations to con the audience as well.

Danny Boyle directs with the right balance of tension and wit, never forgetting that violence begets violence as one thing leads to another.