I mean, come on. Debauched eco-warrior and ninja Native American sidekick lock horns with aristocracy, cults and supernatural killing machines in 18th century France. What's not to love?
I can't think of a single genre that this film doesn't have covered. At its heart, of course, it's a rollicking action film packed with slo-mo face-kicking and all the fantastic lettuce-tearing sound effects you'd expect, but there's also plenty of horror, mystery, romance, costume drama and (gulp) moral and sociopolitical comment stirred into the mix. And the entire thing looks fantastic. Okay, maybe it takes a while to get going after the teaser fight scene and Beast attacks near the beginning, but once it reaches the halfway point this little beauty's steaming along like a runaway train.
At the end of the day this is Europe sticking two fingers up at Hollywood and demonstrating that in no way does it hold the monopoly on the traditional stunt-heavy, SFX-ridden escapist blockbuster. In fact, this one's quite a bit better than most of Hollywood's efforts, as much for the fresh new setting as anything else. For God's sake justify its worldwide release and go see it.
I can't think of a single genre that this film doesn't have covered. At its heart, of course, it's a rollicking action film packed with slo-mo face-kicking and all the fantastic lettuce-tearing sound effects you'd expect, but there's also plenty of horror, mystery, romance, costume drama and (gulp) moral and sociopolitical comment stirred into the mix. And the entire thing looks fantastic. Okay, maybe it takes a while to get going after the teaser fight scene and Beast attacks near the beginning, but once it reaches the halfway point this little beauty's steaming along like a runaway train.
At the end of the day this is Europe sticking two fingers up at Hollywood and demonstrating that in no way does it hold the monopoly on the traditional stunt-heavy, SFX-ridden escapist blockbuster. In fact, this one's quite a bit better than most of Hollywood's efforts, as much for the fresh new setting as anything else. For God's sake justify its worldwide release and go see it.