I should really be a lot more sceptical about anything with
Bill Condon’s name attached to it. And not just because he’s the director
responsible for the Beauty & The Beast remake, either. Looking through the
man’s entire body of work, it is remarkably all over the damn place. Working on
the scripts for Chicago and The Greatest Showman, directing both halves of the
finale to the Twilight Saga, and then there’s his work a few years ago with Mr.Holmes; there’s a lot of range in that sample, and it’s getting to the point
where I genuinely don’t know whether anything he’s touched will be good or bad.
Still, teaming back up with the writer and lead actor of Mr. Holmes gives this
film some hope, so fingers crossed.
