Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticA handsome if occasionally harebrained addition to the “great man” genre — with the added implication that such heroic feats might not have occurred were it not for an equally impressive lady working behind the scenes — “Eiffel” offers the half-invented story of Gustave Eiffel, the civil engineer who built the most recognizable monument in the world.From the opening seconds, the 2.66:1 CinemaScope aspect ratio is a clue that this project was not designed to