I went through the effort of hoping to find this on uk region 2 DVD, and shouldn't of bothered, the movie is simply awful! You'd expect a film starring, Gabriel Byrne, Christian Bale, Kate Beckinsale, Helen Mirren, Brian Cox, it would be excellent, but it's anything but excellent it's awful. the acting abilities of all these actors is just not there in this film, it's before they could act/before they were famous, in my opinion. The action scenes are so laughable, the plastic swords, the look and feel is totally unreal. It's shocking but seriously nobody can act, not 1 of these huge names nowadays can act in this early film. Christian Bale is completely unconvincing which is very surprising from him, easily his worst performance. I did start having doubts about this film with it's rrp being SOOO cheap to buy, but it was finding a place that stocked it. but if you must buy this, buy it for a laugh, and take it back! or if you simply collect Hamlet/Historic films or awant to see your favorite actor make a bad film. it was a waste of my money in all honesty, i liked the actors more before i saw this.
Review of Royal Deceit
