But the film just meanders pointlessly and some scenes are embarrassingly amateurish in their staging. Word order is frequently and pointlessly inverted. The elaborate nomination and voting process is described as pointlessly complex. A committee of MP's found the benefit sanctions system is pointlessly cruel. For three weeks he pointlessly besieged the city before deciding to continue on to Antioch. One newspaper columnist commented simply "there goes Brian, pointlessly talking himself into trouble again".