Legend of Zorro Review
Oct. 29th, 2005 09:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearAfter a frustrating day at work, which ended late and was followed by a two hour journey to Finchley Vue cinema (including a much longer walk from the tube station than I remembered), I wasn't in the best of moods when sitting down to watch Legend Of Zorro last night with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cholten99, markwelham and Chris.
But it was cliches ahoy for the ridiculously silly, gloriously over the top, and oh so much fun sequel to the 1998 Mask of Zorro. Obviously, we were minus Anthony Hopkins, but both Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta Jones reprised their roles with style and humour (plus they both look really good for their ages - 45 and 36 respectively). They were joined by the best movie horse I've seen in a very long while (he was gorgeous and knew it, and also displayed impressive comic timing), a surprisingly entertaining kid (not usually a plus point for me) and Rufus Sewell playing his usual, deliciously smug baddie (though he looked as though he'd had a facelift, and the inclusion of a demonstration of his jousting skills from A Knight's Tale was a little unnecessary).
Mark hated it, and Chris took issue with the historical inaccuracies (was he really expecting it to be historically sound???), butcholten99 and I threw ourselves wholeheartedly into the experience, adding laughter, gasps and "woo-hoos" to the soundtrack (probably much to the annoyance of our fellow audience-members).
Overall, it was utterly predictable, and focused on style over content, but it was wonderful entertainment throughout - a perfect no-brainer action adventure to end a long and arduous week.
cholten99, markwelham and Chris.But it was cliches ahoy for the ridiculously silly, gloriously over the top, and oh so much fun sequel to the 1998 Mask of Zorro. Obviously, we were minus Anthony Hopkins, but both Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta Jones reprised their roles with style and humour (plus they both look really good for their ages - 45 and 36 respectively). They were joined by the best movie horse I've seen in a very long while (he was gorgeous and knew it, and also displayed impressive comic timing), a surprisingly entertaining kid (not usually a plus point for me) and Rufus Sewell playing his usual, deliciously smug baddie (though he looked as though he'd had a facelift, and the inclusion of a demonstration of his jousting skills from A Knight's Tale was a little unnecessary).
Mark hated it, and Chris took issue with the historical inaccuracies (was he really expecting it to be historically sound???), but
cholten99 and I threw ourselves wholeheartedly into the experience, adding laughter, gasps and "woo-hoos" to the soundtrack (probably much to the annoyance of our fellow audience-members).Overall, it was utterly predictable, and focused on style over content, but it was wonderful entertainment throughout - a perfect no-brainer action adventure to end a long and arduous week.
