'William Tell' Review: An Action-Packed but Flawed Historical Epic

Swiss folk hero William Tell gets a big-budget, action-packed theatrical adaptation based on German author Friedrich Schiller’s classic 1804 play. Writer/director Nick Hamm nails the sweeping vistas, bloody battles, and historically accurate production design, but struggles with character development and plot connectivity in a script that’s strangely disjointed. A talented ensemble of European acting stalwarts do a decent job with the Shakespearean dialogue. They sound and look the part in archetypal roles that should have been more complex. The end result is an uneven experience where the positive outweighs the negative. You can appreciate the film’s cinematic scope despite its flaws.

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