On the surface of it, this film had so much going for it. A host of fine actors very well known to the UK public at least and to the Harry Potter fandom, as well as a well received novel. Overall though I was a little underwhlemed by the film.
The story revolves around the early 19th Century with murder mystery set in around baracks with the a young Edgar Allan Poe as a cadet roped in to help. It's a faction film (more fiction), and we see some gothic tales and shenanigans inevitably as this is Edgar Allan Poe we are talking about. The real lead of the film is played by Christian Bale who takes on Edgar Allan Poe to find the killers.
Sounds intriguing, and it actually is but I was expecting so much more. I don't deny that the settings & direction were wonderful, whilst the acting is very convincing, but I just found it difficult to invest in the storyline. If anything, I kind of got lost in it all and was very little convinced by it.
It's a decent enough film, but with its cast & likely generous budget, I feel it could have been so much more than it was.
The story revolves around the early 19th Century with murder mystery set in around baracks with the a young Edgar Allan Poe as a cadet roped in to help. It's a faction film (more fiction), and we see some gothic tales and shenanigans inevitably as this is Edgar Allan Poe we are talking about. The real lead of the film is played by Christian Bale who takes on Edgar Allan Poe to find the killers.
Sounds intriguing, and it actually is but I was expecting so much more. I don't deny that the settings & direction were wonderful, whilst the acting is very convincing, but I just found it difficult to invest in the storyline. If anything, I kind of got lost in it all and was very little convinced by it.
It's a decent enough film, but with its cast & likely generous budget, I feel it could have been so much more than it was.
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