Review

I enjoyed Ramesses. I liked his weird frumpy look and that we see him appear but not move too much. There were also some good shots. I liked the scene where main guy walked into one of the buildings and started talking to the guy at the table, not looking at him, and the camera pans down to reveal that guy has cut off his hand. The script has issues. I wanted to press a button that turned every person in the film 15 years older. We're told multiple times that the place is a shithole but it looked to my eyes like a lovely cabin retreat. This ain't no Antarctica. Also the multiple "the weather is terrible!" made me laugh when it's fully been gorgeous clear skies for the entire time.

Also we really needed some proper props. I'm thinking of that one scene when the Norwegian is showing expert one of the pottery things they found. He goes into this long detailed description of how the writing is similar to Mesoamerican stuff but not quite. The camera at no point actually shows us this. Because we don't have a prop with such symbols on it. If we had an actual prop, it wouldn't be necessary to spell everything out. You could just have him point at a thing and say "that looks like X". They way normal people speak when they are both looking at the same thing. You don't have to go into a whole descriptive diatribe.