This is an interesting film, and by that I mean it was a piece of crap. It is a combination cartoon, fairy tale and music video, with some very graphic violence thrown in the mix. So far, not so unusual, right? Fairy tales are gruesome, and comics and music videos certainly can be.
This movie then adds A-list actors like Cate Blanchett, Saoirse Ronan, Erik Bana (is he A list?), plus fantastic character actors Tom Hollander and Olivia Williams. The bad guys are Germans or government agents, which is always good. They're easy to dislike. Joe Wright (Atonement, Pride and Prejudice) directed. Since his prior films were hits, he had money to play with on this one. The sound track is interesting, the editing is schizophrenic (seems to be required in this type of film), but the sets were totally fake. That might have been the intention. Who knows.
They sure as hell didn't pay for a script. Remember the TV show that made Jessica Alba a star - I think it was Dark Angel? She was a baby that had been bio-engineered to be the perfect warrior, then she escaped with a bunch of other super-powered children and ran from the government forevermore? That's the same plot here. I think the difference primarily is that was a TV show and this is a movie. And Jessica Alba was better at the role than Saoirse Ronan. No shit.
I've seen the three Joe Wright movies mentioned here and detested them all. Will avoid him in the future. This made money, I believe, so he'll be doing more. Be warned.
This movie is 111 minutes, but I would have sworn it was 2.5 hours or something. It dragged. Rent the Jessica Alba series and skip this.
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