The Dark Is Rising review
Oct. 27th, 2007 09:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearEmpire didn't like the film of The Dark Is Rising at all, and I can see where they're coming from to a certain extent, but I really enjoyed it.
There wasn't anything deep and meaningful about it, and it seemed rather rushed and all too easy (the boy went from knowing nothing to saving the world in five days), but it was good fun, with some great dialogue and several wonderful performances. I loved Christopher Eccleston as the embodiment of darkness (plus he had an incredible horse), and Ian McShane was great as the rather reluctant mentor figure.
It jarred that, in a family of very dark parents and siblings, the protagonist was blue-eyed and blond, but I thought he played the part very well. Empire complained that he was too contemporary and not serious enough, but I thought the contrast between his modern American teenager attitude and The Old Ones' attempts to make him realise the magnitude of the situation worked very well.
It was very funny in places, and exciting in others, and I was in just the right mood for a mindless adventure, but I'm sure many other, discerning cinema-goers would be unimpressed. Case in point: as I was walking out of the cinema, the following reviews were provided by a brother and sister behind me:
Girl: That was such a good film!
Boy: What? It was *so* bad!
Well, it gets a thumbs up from me, anyway.
There wasn't anything deep and meaningful about it, and it seemed rather rushed and all too easy (the boy went from knowing nothing to saving the world in five days), but it was good fun, with some great dialogue and several wonderful performances. I loved Christopher Eccleston as the embodiment of darkness (plus he had an incredible horse), and Ian McShane was great as the rather reluctant mentor figure.
It jarred that, in a family of very dark parents and siblings, the protagonist was blue-eyed and blond, but I thought he played the part very well. Empire complained that he was too contemporary and not serious enough, but I thought the contrast between his modern American teenager attitude and The Old Ones' attempts to make him realise the magnitude of the situation worked very well.
It was very funny in places, and exciting in others, and I was in just the right mood for a mindless adventure, but I'm sure many other, discerning cinema-goers would be unimpressed. Case in point: as I was walking out of the cinema, the following reviews were provided by a brother and sister behind me:
Girl: That was such a good film!
Boy: What? It was *so* bad!
Well, it gets a thumbs up from me, anyway.
