What made the book so great was that all the clues were given to you so you could take your time and try to solve it. However, this style won't work for a two hour long movie so the right call was made to turn the focus away from all the extremely complex clues and towards the characters and their back stories. The filmmakers didn't fully commit to this however, so what you're left with is an unfocused, unoriginal and badly paced mess which fails to capture any of the charm of the earlier movie or the book.
Notable Parts - The performances of Willem Dafoe, Judi Dench and Daisy Ridley - The beautiful period costumes and sets - Impressive and creative cinematography, even if it is a bit unnecessary at times
Worst Parts - The adaptation work, although it is evident they tried and had good ideas - Unnecessary action that makes badly paced - The dead squirrel that was glued to Branagh's face - Terrible cgi
While nothing special, its at least enjoyable, although I would never recommend it or watch it again.
Shout by DeletedBlockedParent2018-03-16T21:34:13Z
What made the book so great was that all the clues were given to you so you could take your time and try to solve it. However, this style won't work for a two hour long movie so the right call was made to turn the focus away from all the extremely complex clues and towards the characters and their back stories. The filmmakers didn't fully commit to this however, so what you're left with is an unfocused, unoriginal and badly paced mess which fails to capture any of the charm of the earlier movie or the book.
Notable Parts
- The performances of Willem Dafoe, Judi Dench and Daisy Ridley
- The beautiful period costumes and sets
- Impressive and creative cinematography, even if it is a bit unnecessary at times
Worst Parts
- The adaptation work, although it is evident they tried and had good ideas
- Unnecessary action that makes badly paced
- The dead squirrel that was glued to Branagh's face
- Terrible cgi
While nothing special, its at least enjoyable, although I would never recommend it or watch it again.