Review – Julius Caesar (2004)

Unless you have an allergy to TNT historical drama (and who doesn’t develop a touch of hay fever around these things?), this is a relatively painless way to pick up a little first century B.C. Roman history. The story follows its title subject from his flight from Rome to escape Sulla all the way to the Ides of March. The acting isn’t great, with Christopher Walken turning in an especially odd performance as Cato and nobody else exactly experiencing a finest three hours either. Script and production values are par for the basic cable course. The one thing I did like was that Calpurnia (played by Valeria Golino) was finally allowed to work up a righteous state of pissed off over Cleopatra. Mildly amusing