Director Babak Najafi's one
set piece really meant to wow — a single - take
shoot out
in a London alley — has the feel of a video game recreated by high school kids on a
gym auditorium
set made of paper mache.
After all, a swords»n' sorcery saga takes a lot of work, and I found myself fretting about all the hours Jason Momoa must have spent
in the
gym to get those muscles, all the expense that must gone into the ridiculous costumes and
sets, all that effort that must gone into lugging lights and cameras to the Bulgarian hills and caves where the film was
shot... all to make such a noisy, bombastic load of nonsense.