I found it vey difficult to watch this film. I was bored by it. There seemed like there was nothing much to it and it was a 2 hour long film full of nothing.
Lets not take anything away from Guinness, we all know that a film can be not great but there can be some outstanding acting. This is definitely not my favourite role for him but he managed it none the less. It did take me a long time to work out which character he was and I usually consider that to be a bonus.
I think that it is fair to say the film is dated. There is no way that a film like that would get through box office in today's film society... it would lose so much money before starting that it probably wouldn't even get to screening. Those kinda films that are set in the middle east but take way to long for anything interesting to happen would have never made it past proposal- they are just too long and not adventurous or in any way particularly entertaining.
I felt like Monty Python would be able to make a great spoof out of this film.
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