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Inkheart
The adventures of a father and his young daughter, in their search for a long lost book that will help reunite a missing, close relative.
Release : | 2008 |
Rating : | 6.1 |
Studio : | New Line Cinema, Internationale Filmproduktion Blackbird Erste, |
Crew : | Art Direction, Art Direction, |
Cast : | Brendan Fraser Sienna Guillory Andy Serkis Eliza Bennett Paul Bettany |
Genre : | Adventure Fantasy Family |
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I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful
A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.
It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
Inkheart is an adaptation of a book released at a time when fantasy films aimed at families have been doing great box office. However the magic of great storytelling cannot be passed on to all adaptations and certainly not Inkheart which has an appalling screenplay.Brendan Fraser plays Mo Folchart, a silver tongue who has the ability of bringing book characters to life just by reading aloud. The catch being that someone or something from this world goes back in.This shift from the world of books to the real world creates havoc as there is a risk you might lose someone close. Andy Serkis plays Capricorn who along his henchmen uses these special readers for his own meansPaul Bettany plays Dustfinger a character from the book Inkheart and wants to be read back into the book.There is plenty of European location filming and some notable actors. The downside is that the film is confusing, uninteresting, heavy on clichés and lacks charm. The poor screenplay is a let down.
a remarkable cast. inspired locations. and a novel. that is basis. and single virtue of film. because it is a hard work to adapt Inkheart and this product is fundamental proof. sure, it is not really bad but it is not good. only exercise who may be good advertising for rediscover books and discover great novels as source of unforgettable miracles. but is it enough ? because powerful pillars as Helen Mirren or Andy Serkis, the experience of Mumies for Brendan Fraser, are important but the building has not roof. a cast is not great choice without a solid story. and in this case, the story seems be a sketch from Inkheart. in same time, it is not waist of time. only entertainment for children. and nice support for expect a better version.
I've seen this movie in my movie rental place for a long time, but I always kept putting off renting it, but now that I have seen it, I'm really turned out to be fond of it both as a fan of fantasy and as a writer myself. Brendan Fraser plays a writer with the talent to read the characters out of a book literally. When he releases a criminal and a band of outlaws from a book, they kidnap his wife and destroy their books to keep from get returned. Along the way, homages are played to all the great literary masterpieces of yesterday, from "The Wizard Of Oz" to "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves." Fraser's character is helped along by Dust Finger, one of the characters from the book, and his daughter, Meggie, into recovering a copy of the book from the author, whimsically played by the wonderful Jim Broadbent, who like myself wishes to vanish into the literary world which he has created. It's a wonderful fantasy tale that will appeal probably more to adults and literary fans than kids, and I truly recommend it to everyone.
It really isn't fair for me to review this movie without finishing it. I hope to finish it someday and go back and finish this review. But I'm having a hard time wanting to finish it - and it's mostly because of blocking problems.The scenes in the movie might have worked perfectly well in a book. But when transferring action scenes to the screen, they haven't paid attention to the question, How can we block this scene out so that it makes sense? Where should people stand? What should they be doing? So we have action sequences where most of the actors are standing around looking lost. The people being captured have plenty of chances to run away, and instead they run and hug each other, or stand in place, or deliver monologues. The ruffians stand around watching the good guys almost escape. They brandish guns and knives vaguely, without conviction; and the good guys don't seem intimidated by them. It doesn't make sense.Not to mention, why is it the reader is on the run from a violent gang of criminals for years, and he doesn't have any kind of plan for when they show up? Doesn't carry a gun, hasn't warned anybody, doesn't try to escape. It's hard to stomach.