Jim Caviezel: The Bore is WILLIAM TELL: THE LEGEND — The man who couldn’t make Vikings vs. Aliens interesting would like to shoot an apple off your noggin.
Written by Matt Goldberg
Is William Tell really a legend? It seems more like a brief anecdote or at the very least, the world’s first known “Jackass” sketch. Legend implies great deeds and sacrifices. Tell shot an apple off his kid’s head. Yippie.
Or did he? Apparently, there’s way, way more to his story and that’s what director Nick Hurran wants to tell with “William Tell: The Legend” starring Jim Caviezel who will forever be known as Defeated Jesus. I mean, when Willem Dafoe played Jesus, the film was controversial, but Dafoe has gone on to establish himself in other roles and taking new chances. Caviezel seems to embrace the bland like a security blanket. But as long as he keeps attaching himself to projects I don’t care about, it works out well for both of us.
But back to the William Tell Legend you’ve never …