Review of Damsel

Damsel (2024)
5/10
Unexplored potential
11 March 2024
The Descent meets Dragonheart with soft, tween horror mixed with fairy-tale fanfare.

On the outside I really liked this movies premise, there are some really interesting ideas in this I would have liked to see expanded but there were a lot of moments that took me out and didn't make sense or too many plot conveniences. I actually liked this horror aspect between the main character and the dragon. I wish we had more of that in here. Its a type of fantasy we don't see very much. Imagine the movie Alien but instead of a Xenomorph in space chasing you it was a Dragon in a labyrinth deep in a mountain chasing you. That right there is a selling point and at times it does deliver, other times I feel they didn't do enough...

I hope this idea is explored again because there was something to this I want to see explored in the future. Millie Bobbi Brown was great, I enjoyed her role in the movie, other actors are a bit dry and one note, which is why I thought it would have benefited more if it was more of Millie Bobby Brown and the dragon being the two main focus with a more survival tone.

Probably not a movie I'd watch again but one I would like to see expanded and redone well in the future. There is potential here sadly this movie didn't really push for it.
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