It's not politically correct. It's also not cinematically correct, humanly correct or historically correct.

| May 3, 2014

Released in 1,492 theaters on Friday, Christopher Columbus: The Discovery should be gone from most of them faster than you can hoist the mainsails and shiver your timbers.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 3, 2014

Cast in the title role is George Corraface, whose credits include Not Without My Daughter and Impromptu. Does he overact? Let's just say that I think I heard him frown.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 3, 2014

The film benefits greatly from the use of three totally authentic ship replicas, but the real thing -- as presented in the PBS series about Columbus -- is still much more inspiring.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 3, 2014

George Corraface would look more comfortable in a Calvin Klein underwear ad than at the helm of a ship.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 3, 2014

Dry as an outdated textbook, scintillating as the droning of your worst schoolteacher, Christopher Columbus: The Discovery is a colossal disaster.

| May 3, 2014

This daft biographical epic reveals that the Europeans came West in search of many things: a new trade route to India and China; new souls to be converted to Christianity; new sources of gold; and new girlfriends with larger breasts.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 3, 2014

Most of the picture is so hilariously Hollywooden that nobody could mistake it for real history.

| May 3, 2014

All right, maybe the world isn't flat. But this listless historical epic sure is.

Full Review | May 3, 2014

This is not so much a milestone to mark the 500th anniversary of the discovery of America as a millstone round the neck of nearly everyone connected with it.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 3, 2014

Seeming to last somewhat longer than Columbus's original journey across the Atlantic, this dull and unintentionally funny turkey is best left to chronic insomniacs.

| May 3, 2014

The drama never catches fire, cycling through the same beats of uncertainty and blame to a point of screen stasis. The opening driving montage of Manos: The Hands of Fate has more of a filmmaking zip.

| Original Score: D | Aug 20, 2012

Christopher Columbus: The Discovery lacks even the misplaced energy of a camp folly. It's limp and exhausted -- a bloodless swashbuckler.

| Original Score: D+ | Sep 7, 2011

John Glen's take on the Genovese explorer adds up to perfectly serviceable commercial entertainment -- there are a few moments where Kirk Douglas or Charlton Heston would have felt right at home.

| Mar 26, 2009

As a historical epic or even a gung-ho action romp, this displays little taste or spectacle and feels more interminable than Columbus' original voyage.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 30, 2006

It's hard to fathom the minds of people who could make this kind of tripe.

| Jun 24, 2006

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