I wish this kicked off a franchise.
It was a fun film that would have made an awesome movie franchise.
shareThe scene that makes me feel exactly that is the shot where the knife-thrower is about to confront the blade-spitting Hassansin and retrieve the dagger. That brief shot where he's entering the room and staring around--with the tension of the upcoming fight, and the weight of his task--makes me think, 'Dangit, I would love to spend more time in this world.'
There's a book called "Desert of Souls" by Howard Andrew Jones that looks very similar.
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Requiescat in pace Pete Postlethwaite.