Sa majesté Minor Reviews

To be honest, it is a really obscure movie (I'm only the 3rd user who has rated this movie on this website) but since I always had a weak spot for  Jean-Jacques Annaud's work, I was quite eager to check it out. Indeed, Annaud is one of the very few French directors who has managed to have quite an impressive career abroad and, with this movie, it was the first time in 20 years that he made a movie in French. The thing I always enjoyed about this director is that he has always been willing to take some risks and, once again, he made something really original here. Unfortunately, it's such a pity that the end-result was so underwhelming. Indeed, he tackled a time period (ancient Greece just after the prehistory but way before the Romans of Ancient Greece) which we actually never see but, even though he managed to reach something really mesmerizing with 'La Guerre du Feu', here, you really wonder what he was trying to achieve. Basically, he spent way too much time on some pigs and the only scenes which really worked were the ones involving Vincent Cassell has a satyre. Anyway, to conclude, even though the whole thing had some potential, it was eventually rather misguided and even seriously boring to watch and I don’t think it is really worth a look.