Yes it's not as good as the first two. Also it's not helped that Rachel Weiss bailed out after reading the script. ( Which is rich after making that crock the Fountain, which was unwatchable.) But his does have some merits. We get closure on how several characters got older and developed. We get to see some great special effects and it was at least as good as other preposterous Pulp Fantasy genre offerings like Hellboy 2.
The really annoying bit was the numerous deleted scenes on the DVD. Why were these bits cut out ? All of them made the movie's plot more logical and some even made better sense of some connecting dialogue. What would have been really great would to have included a Director's Cut version on the DVD with all these scenes back in the right places. Who the hell decided to cut them out in the first place ? Was it just for running time ? It certainly didn't help the narrative.
Oh, and Guy Ritchie take note, all the guns were contemporaneous with the period depicted. Not just thrown in because they were available in the props department like you did in your latest Sherlock Holmes atrocity.
The really annoying bit was the numerous deleted scenes on the DVD. Why were these bits cut out ? All of them made the movie's plot more logical and some even made better sense of some connecting dialogue. What would have been really great would to have included a Director's Cut version on the DVD with all these scenes back in the right places. Who the hell decided to cut them out in the first place ? Was it just for running time ? It certainly didn't help the narrative.
Oh, and Guy Ritchie take note, all the guns were contemporaneous with the period depicted. Not just thrown in because they were available in the props department like you did in your latest Sherlock Holmes atrocity.