Eiffel
Clearly it was a challenging project turning Gustave Eiffel's life into a movie, like most of these great men their lives consisted of work, work and more work. However the script writers made some very poor decisions, instead of creating a faithful biopic, including his family tragedy, 5 small children and no mother, burgeoning work projects and financial worries, they chose to insert a fabricated unrequited romantic interlude.
The scale of the fabrication subsumed the movie and overshadowed the Eiffel Tower and even the Statue of Liberty, what was worse this romantic interlude had the passion of an empty baked bean can and was really quite sordid and gratuitous. Had I been a descendant of Mister Eiffel I would considering defamation of character in the courts.
This was a very big budget production and could have been great, instead it was pedestrian. I'm giving this a 5 outta 10, meaning the tower was the star not the man.
Clearly it was a challenging project turning Gustave Eiffel's life into a movie, like most of these great men their lives consisted of work, work and more work. However the script writers made some very poor decisions, instead of creating a faithful biopic, including his family tragedy, 5 small children and no mother, burgeoning work projects and financial worries, they chose to insert a fabricated unrequited romantic interlude.
The scale of the fabrication subsumed the movie and overshadowed the Eiffel Tower and even the Statue of Liberty, what was worse this romantic interlude had the passion of an empty baked bean can and was really quite sordid and gratuitous. Had I been a descendant of Mister Eiffel I would considering defamation of character in the courts.
This was a very big budget production and could have been great, instead it was pedestrian. I'm giving this a 5 outta 10, meaning the tower was the star not the man.