Just so...so bad

Beautiful, moving film.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.

When I read the book, I was sincerely disappointed. I was extremely unwilling to watching the film thinking it was going to be as boring as the book. However, when I started the film I was more impressed. I loved the character DustFinger in both the book and the film. I also loved that he stated that the book didn't define him and that he was going to rewrite his history. Also, just like in the book I hated Capricorn. HAHA you die!!! So I give Inkheart a 7 instead of an 8 because while it was better than the book it didn't stay entirely with the book also. I don't like it when films don't go with the books entirely, however taking film class I can understand why they change things. 7/10

I just have to say this is just what I thought of the acting and cinematography.We had to watch this in English class and then do some assignments based on it afterwords. It was really hard to pay attention because the acting was so damn bad!! You can't take them seriously at all. The graphics aren't the best either. Why Helen Mirren aspired to be in this movie, I don't know. She was the best actor in the whole movie (no surprise there.) If they got better actors and and changed the whole look of the background and animations it might of been enjoyable to watch. But for me, a 15 y/o it was too cheesy for me, maybe a younger person might of enjoyed this, but I certainly did not.

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.