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- 2015
- Not Rated
- Spike TV
- 2015
- Not Rated
- Spike TV
Summary The six-hour miniseries dramatizes the struggles and challenges of King Tut's (Avan Jogia) reign as others in his circle including Grand Vizier Ay (Ben Kingsley), sister-wife Ankhe (Sibylla Deen), High Priest Amun (Alexander Siddig), and General Horemheb (Nonso Anozie) scheme for their own power.
- 2015
- Not Rated
- Spike TV
- 2015
- Not Rated
- Spike TV
Tut
Season 1 Premiere: Jul 19, 2015
46
6.2
Summary The six-hour miniseries dramatizes the struggles and challenges of King Tut's (Avan Jogia) reign as others in his circle including Grand Vizier Ay (Ben Kingsley), sister-wife Ankhe (Sibylla Deen), High Priest Amun (Alexander Siddig), and General Horemheb (Nonso Anozie) scheme for their own power.
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Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
46
13% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
73% Mixed
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
13% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
It’s a wonder Spike didn’t position Tut as an angst-filled teen drama. Kingsley steps in to ensure that doesn’t happen despite the production’s occasional seemingly period-inappropriate detail--jarring neon hair extensions and the like.
A largely enjoyable, if uneven three-night epic about one of the best-known rulers from Ancient Egypt: Tutankhamun.
For a while, palace intrigue, Egyptian architecture and a few rousing battles are enough to keep Tut moving. But the farther it moves, the more it gets entangled in that demeaning queen-vs.-queen subplot, to the point where Tut vanishes from his own movie as thoroughly as he's vanished from history.
You might wonder about some of the script’s lapses in logic here and there, but most likely you’ll just shrug at them because Tut is primarily meant as an old-fashioned, blood, sand and sex epic with cool battle scenes, grunt-filled lovemaking, serviceable dialogue, CGI and papier mache sets and minimal heavy lifting on the part of Oscar winner Kingsley. He proves that he can glare with the best of them.
Like a lot of period dramas, it settles for being slightly silly and mostly dull.
Three nights' worth of Tut became a slog, some of it through copious amounts of spurting blood.
Predictable/preposterous plot elements co-mingle with some terrible dialogue, silly situations (characters enter a room full of dead bodies on hooks but don’t cover their noses in disgust until they see the bodies; wouldn’t the smell be enough for them?) and occasionally poor acting.
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Generally Favorable
Based on 27 User Ratings
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 27 User Ratings
6.2
59% Positive
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Production Company:
- Muse Entertainment Enterprises
Initial Release Date: Jul 19, 2015
Number of seasons: 2 Seasons
Rating: Not Rated
Awards
Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA
• 2 Nominations
Screen Actors Guild Awards
• 1 Nomination
Art Directors Guild
• 1 Nomination
