Empire
With the determined single-mindedness of Fitzcarraldo and the beard of Chuck from Cast Away, Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl sets out to prove that Polynesia was originally settled by the ancient Peruvians, using only a balsa wood raft, a transistor radio and raw, salt-encrusted chutzpah for the job.
Happily, it’s been worth the wait. Co-directors Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg have forged a pleasingly old-fashioned piece of storytelling that’s big in spectacle, yet still precise in characterisation.
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