Benedict Cumberbatch's mailed-in performance as the disinterested wyrm is a bit disappointing and far from the fearsome foe found in the original book.

What deadly voids and unbidden infidelities in the lines that seem to gnaw upon all Faith, and refuse resurrections to the beings who have placelessly perished without a grave.

‘Thump! Thump! Thump!’ said the drum of the Bures Silver Band.

And I ſhal finde you emptie of that fault, / Right ioyfull of your reformation.