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Reviews Counted:15
Fresh:8
Rotten:7
Average Rating:4.9/10
Rated: PG [See Full Rating]
Genre: Action/Adventure
Theatrical Release:10-10-2008
Synopsis: Stone of Destiny is based on the audacious true-life attempt to bring the Stone of Scone back to Scotland. This is a story about the passion of youth and the universal theme of the underdog... [More]
Starring: Charlie Cox, Kate Mara, Billy Boyd, Robert Carlyle
Director: Charles Martin Smith
Written and directed by an American, the film nevertheless feels closer to the ‘British’ spirit of the old Ealing comedies, something emphasised by its old-fashioned ambience and its charming evocation of the period.
Top CriticA woeful slice of sentimental whimsy that makes Braveheart look like a documentary.
Top CriticAs a film, it’s a touch too Hollywood, and full of too much patriotic Braveheart guff, but, on the whole, the American director and writer, Charles Martin Smith, has created an amiable and watchable heist movie.
Writer/director Charles Martin Smith is American, which wouldn't matter if this didn't feel so much like a wee-dram-and-bagpipes invitation to a mythical Scotland of yesteryear.
Top CriticThose whose national football and cricket teams are led by an Italian and a South African respectively have little room to talk, but surely Scotland has enough homegrown filmmaking talent to stick it to we sassenachs without relying on the Yanks?
It’s hard to conceive a more clichéd depiction of Scotland than the one Charles Martin Smith fashions in this corny Celtic caper.
This modest Scottish caper film is based on real events but it is all a bit too limp to really engage, despite impressive performances from Cox and Mara.
Based on a true story, this rousing caper adventure can't help but keep audiences engaged. It's an efficiently made, if not particularly inventive, old-style romp that works away at your cynicism until you find a lump in your throat.
Scottish nationalists are not likely to be wowed by this tiresome retelling of the "theft" of the Stone of Destiny (or Scone) from Westminster Abbey in 1950.
An old-fashioned, unashamed heartwarmer more likely to prove a crowd- pleaser than a critical favourite.
...unapologetically old-fashioned...
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Braveheart it isn't, but it is fun.
Writer/director Charles Martin Smith brings energy and wit to this British-Canadian co-production.
This unabashedly sentimental and outright anti-English pic is stodgy as a cheap haggis with nationalistic sentimentality.
Top CriticSmith, who also wrote the screenplay, is all brisk efficiency over the course of the movie's fat-free 96 minutes.
| Tomatometer Percentage | Movie | Date |
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| — | The Descent: Part 2 | 04/12 |
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