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Article: 'ATTILA' MINISERIES DOWNSIZES TALE OF THE HUN.(Television)(Review)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- January 29, 2001
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THE AWFUL CHALLENGE for anyone making an "epic" motion picture is to convey bigness. Land and sky must stretch to infinity, or at least to the next area code. Armies - aren't there always armies in epic movies? - must be enormous. And the main characters must tower above the little people, literally and figuratively.
In "Attila," a miniseries airing at 9 and 11 p.m. tomorrow and Wednesday on USA Network, director Dick Lowry uses all these cinematic devices and still fails to accomplish much more than a big, blustery rumination on power, the abuse of power and the power of abuse.
The very idea of a film about Attila makes one wonder: How do you find a ...