All 29 Ridley Scott Movies, Ranked From Alien to Gladiator II
29 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992)GaumontIn a simply world, a Ridley Scott legendary would not wind up at the bottom of this list-- however it's not a surprise that the ugliest of Scott's traditionally revisionist works winds up dead last. Launched to mark the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus "finding" the Americas, the movie charts his tough relationship with the Spanish court and the subsequent colonial abuses performed by him and his followers. Other than, in Scott's variation, Columbus (Gérard Depardieu) was generally a witness to the really rotten barbarity of European manifest destiny, instead of an advocate of it. Regardless of the angelic rating by Vangelis and some spectacular frames of "the New World," the only peek of paradise here is from the happiness of the credits...
