The script, by Boaz Yakin, Doug Miro and Carlo Bernard,
echoes swashbucklers of the past — entertainment for entertainment's sake.
Visual effects aren't the only culprit to the film's artificiality, the mortal protagonist Bek is a faint
echo of previous desert
swashbuckler archetypes, the story is categoric in its predictability and the dramatic tone of the film is always drowned beneath blasting fanfares.