Tuesday, January 15, 2008
ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD
Today's film was
Somewhere in here is a great movie trying to get out.
I really liked some parts of it and then there would be this sideshow or magic trick or sudden disruption to take me off track and the sidetrip was never worth the diversion.
It took me a long while to get the story line and I still am not sure of all of it or where they ended up with people from everywhere when I thought they could not be there. At the end. See?
The hero is great. The love interest is pretty good.
Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert DeNiro add star power but should get half the time they do.
I so wanted to like it more.
I really did.
I suppose that they think the way to get attention these days is to trick it all up with stuff. Stuff hanging here. Stuff intruding there.
It was 2 hours and 7 minutes long and could have been done in much less and been a wonderful fantasy.
As it is, it is a clunker that needs a lot of rework.
I will give it a 3 out of Netflix5 and it should probably be a 2 but I liked the boy very much and I want him to be king forever.
