Presumably intended to capture the same audience as recent French literary adaptations such as The Count of Monte Cristo, this wildly uneven English-language action adventure taps into the legend of the apple-skewering archer William Tell and celebrates the feisty, radical spirit of those well-known political subversives – checks notes – the Swiss.
The famous apple incident is a taut centrepiece for Nick Hamm’s picture, and the action sequences are propulsive. The casting, however, is questionable. As William Tell, Claes Bang aims for stirring oration but ends up with something that sounds more like half-stirred word porridge.
In UK and Irish cinemas now, and in Australian cinemas from 20 February.
