I don't want to waste too much time writing this review because in my honest opinion, this supernatural-fantasy movie is rubbish. I will say that I haven't read the novel this is based on, but if online reviews are to be believed, the movie deviates quite a bit from the original source.
When an immigrant couple are denied entrance at Ellis Island, they place their baby into a model ship and set it adrift in the Hudson River, where he eventually grows up to be Peter Lake (Colin Farrell). Peter has been a petty thief and safe-cracker for Pearly Soames (Russell Crowe), but the two have fallen out and Pearly's gang intends to kill Peter...except for the intervention of a magical horse. Throw in a beautiful consumptive girl (Jessica Brown Findlay) and her precocious younger sister, time travel, amnesia, Lucifer, miracles, a fight to the death, a young girl dying of cancer and her journalist mother (Jennifer Connelly), and you have a movie full of tropes which seems to be building to something but ends up being nothing.
No joke - when this movie finished, my companions (all females) started laughing and asked what the hell exactly happened during this movie? How did so many big name people get involved? How is it possible to have a movie throw so many cliches into a 2 hour movie and yet still leave you with a sense of having no idea what happened? Laura actually said she was glad it was just us girls because if one of the boys came along with us, she would have been ashamed to have made him sit through it.
Watch if you're curious otherwise...I'd like my time back please.
2/10
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