Scarlett - Diamond of Revenge

None of it mattered, and for all the slit throats, close calls, electric shocks, and broken bones, Marshall’s latest fires too many blanks to be of any consequence.

“Atrocious” might have been a better title.

The sub-sub-Scarface bursts of bullet-ridden action just about keep this thing from grinding to a halt, but it’s leering, cruddy and retrograde to the bitter end.

Clunky, junky and devoid of any nutritional value, director/co-screenwriter Neil Marshall's inept crime thriller wants to meld a Guy Ritchie caper with a Jackie Collins novel, and it winds failing at both.

When you’re doing fourth-rate Guy Ritchie ripoffs you need to have stopped three rates ago.

Duchess isn’t perfect, yet it’s likely the exact film Marshall and Kirk intended it to be.

Even if Marshall handles the action proficiently, he never convinces us to care who's getting their throat gouged open next.

The wrong actress in the lead role saps the strength of this movie.

Duchess is a slog of an action flick that is so fundamentally flaccid in all respects that it’s not even “so bad it’s good”, it’s just a chore to watch.

Duchess plays out like Guy Ritchie remade Pretty Woman, but Neil Marshall and Charlotte Kirk's revenge flick fails to capture the charm of either.