If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

The legacy from the Victorian age that was brought into the Edwardian age was the novel. This was the basis for a number of Griffith's films, but he took it a stage further with visual narrative through editing. This film marks the transition between the Victorian novel and the visual narrative.