Post by CBee on May 10, 2004 18:40:28 GMT
Well, what can I say... The film was gonna finish at 4.00 and by 3.10 I was thinking "I can't take much more of this, just kill him, why don't you!".
Firstly, the good points (although there are very few)... the special effects are excellent and the various transformations the characters all go through digitally are seamless. There are also a couple of very funny lines, especially when the monk played by that bloke who was Faramir in LOTR keeps insisting he's 'only a friar' and almost anything said by Kate Beckinsale, just 'cos of that stupid accent. The acting is fairly good and the story is reasonably interesting, even if it doesn't fully engage you.
Onto the bad points.... well, where to start? It was overlong at 2 hr 21 mins and the story really was very stretched over that length of time. The story itself is completely unbelievable. Even though I understand that it's a fantasy film, it has none of the believability of LOTR (which, lets face it, you walk out of at least partly believing that Elijah Wood really is that short and that all trees sound like asthmatics). Also, they've tried to include almost every single horror monster in fiction. You name it, it's in there- werewolves, Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, Igor, My Hyde and undead oompa lumpas.
Oh yeah, and the ending is a scene nicked from The Lion King. So, in short, don't touch it even with a special crap film proof barge pole.
Firstly, the good points (although there are very few)... the special effects are excellent and the various transformations the characters all go through digitally are seamless. There are also a couple of very funny lines, especially when the monk played by that bloke who was Faramir in LOTR keeps insisting he's 'only a friar' and almost anything said by Kate Beckinsale, just 'cos of that stupid accent. The acting is fairly good and the story is reasonably interesting, even if it doesn't fully engage you.
Onto the bad points.... well, where to start? It was overlong at 2 hr 21 mins and the story really was very stretched over that length of time. The story itself is completely unbelievable. Even though I understand that it's a fantasy film, it has none of the believability of LOTR (which, lets face it, you walk out of at least partly believing that Elijah Wood really is that short and that all trees sound like asthmatics). Also, they've tried to include almost every single horror monster in fiction. You name it, it's in there- werewolves, Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, Igor, My Hyde and undead oompa lumpas.
Oh yeah, and the ending is a scene nicked from The Lion King. So, in short, don't touch it even with a special crap film proof barge pole.