Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

meganfothergill-76333 Unfortunately I started reading the series of book this movie is based on around 2005-2006, and was horrified to know they were turning it into a movie because it's one of my favourite books of all time. Well they completely ruined it, the only things being true to the books is that the characters of John Gregory, Thomas Ward and Mother Malkin exist, and that the theme of the story is dealing with her once she is freed. Basically everything else is different, down to the characters motivations, backgrounds, and sometimes even very existence (Kit Harrington's character is dead before the book even starts, and he dies to a completely different type of creature). Beyond that the movie is poorly written, badly directed, and lacks the depth of character and lore you find in the book (a 200 page novel for 9-12 year olds, it's not like it's The Stand or some big epic). They could have done so much better, but chose not to for who knows what reasons. TL;DR The movie is probably not worth your time unless you want a very bad LOTR spoof. Go read the book, it'll take you like 2 hours max.

Man99204 This could have been an amazing movie - if they had focused on the relationships between the different characters. Instead, the special effects overwhelm this film. This ultimately becomes not a story, but an exercise in special effects. Without some sort of emotional core the film falls flat.Jeff Bridges character is also the other major problem with this film. Bridges is a supremely talented and reliable actor - not any of that is evident in this film. He hams his way through every scene. He is more mannered and artificial than Vincent Price at his worst. Scene which should have been powerful and heroic are merely laughable when Bridges is in them.

TheNagel i cannot give this movie a fair and just review - the horrendous accent that jeff bridges used made the movie unwatchable for me. it's like his mouth was stuffed with mashed potatoes and marbles. it's even worse than Bane from the dark knight rises. and *that* is saying something. his "accent" totally ruins the movie. whoever told jeff to speak like that needs the teeth slapped out of their mouth.it might be a great movie - but i'll never know. i can't watch it.my son walked out of the room about 20 minutes in with the comment "yeah - they totally destroyed this story. i'm done."

skGoliat I liked this movie, but not enough to write a review. But the bad criticism did not let me any chance, I had to step in. Most of the critics sound a bit salty, because their beloved book has not been portrayed correctly. Well, I did not read the books, so I can judge a bit more objectively I think. While I expected nothing, I was pleasantly surprised. Here are the reasons why this movie is different: The antagonists actually have reasons to be bad - There is not only black and white, good and evil in this story, there are a lot of grey areas as well - Actors are really good, Juliane Moore is amazing - production values are good, not top notch, but good - in most movies you know after minute 5 how the movie is going to end, not so much in this movieDon't take me wrong, this is nowhere near amazing, but it is entertaining, has some interesting aspects and good production values. The only thing that seems to make this movie bad is when you have read the books before. If you have not, try it.