Ridley Scott is ruining himself with flop after flop – and Hollywood isn’t helping

The British genius behind ‘Alien’ and ‘Gladiator’ has presided over a string of creatively uninspiring blockbusters of late, from ‘Gladiator II’ to this month’s ‘The Dog Stars’. And despite the feeling that the 88-year-old is phoning it in, he keeps drawing sky-high budgets. It’s spoiling his legacy in the process, writes Adam White