Reviews: Paul Greengrass’s 'The Uprising' Depicts 1381 Peasant Revolt
Critics reviewed Paul Greengrass's historical epic 'The Uprising,' starring Andrew Garfield as a leader in the 1381 Peasants' Revolt against King Richard II. Reviews described the film as harrowing and politically relevant but noted uneven pacing and monotonous action sequences.
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The Uprising review – the peasants are revolting in muddled historical epic
Andrew Garfield’s charisma can’t save Paul Greengrass’s grim and depressingly generic period piece Hollywood loves giving young actors their own historical epic as much as audiences seem to dislike watching them. Timothée Chalamet and Chris Pine’s least remembered roles are in the medieval set films The King and Outlaw King (no relation), Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel made back only a third of its $100m budget and earlier this year, the Saudi-backed seventh-century drama Desert Warrior starrin...
By Owen Myers
Read full article →Andrew Garfield is no Prince of Thieves in ungainly, un-merry epic The Uprising
A strange and unwieldly film, the production largely plays to Paul Greengrass’s worst instincts, even if there are flashes of inspiration in the margins
By Barry Hertz
Read full article →‘The Uprising’ Review: Andrew Garfield and Paul Greengrass Go Medieval on the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, With Uneven Results
Among medieval hand-held farming tools, the sickle is your best bet for reaping. It’s also just the thing for deadly weaponry in times of a peasant revolt, especially one momentous enough to earn capital letters and its own year marker — the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, for instance. In “The Uprising,” which doesn’t quite come […]
By Guy Lodge
Read full article →‘The Uprising’ Review: Andrew Garfield in Paul Greengrass’ Intense but Monotonous Medieval Actioner
The violent historical drama about the 14th-century Peasants' Revolt also features Jamie Bell, Stephen Dillane, Katherine Waterston, Cosmo Jarvis and Thomasin McKenzie.
By Frank Scheck
Read full article →‘The Uprising’ Review: Andrew Garfield Leads A Revolt Against King Richard ll In Paul Greengrass’ 1381 Epic With Political Relevance To Now
On the heels of this summer’s darker, more dour and reflective, deliberately meditative, if bloody new take on the Robin Hood legend, The Death Of Robin Hood with Hugh Jackman portraying the famous icon’s last days, comes another film set in the same milieu, this one around 1381, that chronicles events that helped inspire the […]
By Pete Hammond
Read full article →The Uprising Review: Harrowing, Heartbreaking, And A Great Modern Epic
Paul Greengrass fits naturally into the epic mold with a massive film that never loses sight of the humanity at the heart of massive conflicts.
By Brandon Zachary
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