Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Like the season, Winter's Tale proves to feel longer than one would prefer. This film would've been great, if it wasn't so nonsensical. Keeping it exactly as it was, perhaps Winter's Tale would've gone down better as an animation.Yes, it's a fantasy film, and yes, suspending disbelief is among the top rules to follow, especially with today's modern methodology of movie making, but, though too many things made little to no sense in this film, what the actual tragedy is, most of them did so unnecessarily, and that can diminish the enjoyment factor quite significantly.Also, Beverly and Peter's connection was thin. Whether it's because of Colin and Jessica's chemistry,Goldman's directing or a combination of both, the 2 leads' connection throttles the love component, a component which is in fact, the entire basis of this film. Love can be portrayed in one sentence, so the immediate love arc isn't the problem, the directing and the story was.I understand why some may love this movie, however I have to believe that, to love this movie you either 1). Saw, and chose/managed to ignore all the many things wrong with it or 2). You were unable to see its copious short-comings.Truthfully, the best thing I can say about Winter's Tale is that, it had great potential, but got lost in what it thought, was great. Hell (Get it), even Will Smith's performance was pretty awful, and William's, well, it almost hurt, to watch. 4.5/10.P.S. Was anybody else reminded of Tangled while watching this film?

Crazy busy but it was nice and I drink water to drink you drinks and eat it was really fun and I drink a great time and I eat apples.

... but they didn't bring it up in the movie! This movie lacks background telling. The relationship between Peter Lake and his mentor had to be more described (10 minutes should be enough). The game of good and evil and its protagonists had to be more described in detail. A - simple - further boost in story telling would be achieved by adding some more scenes with Will Smith at the beginning and the end of the movie. Another rule for good movies: Don't waste many good well known actors (John Hurt and Graham Green) as side kicks with too few movie scenes - summing up only to merely seconds or some minutes of movie time. Don't construct one and a half love stories. The half one is by far too much.

Why? I have seen quite a few bad movies. I have to confess, 80% of the movies I see are worthless US and European flicks. However, many of them has sparks of intelligence, humour, irony, realism, or some good acting, enjoyable characters, actions, effects, story, punchline, dialogue, etc. This one has none of these. (Maybe the horse when it does his act).I think the reason is that it states that love is wonder. And this is an overstatement.Each event in the movie is boiled for minutes and then executed step-by-step by the book. (I do not mean the book it was based on.) At the start of the scene you know how it will end. The idea for the movie is so slim that it cannot be stretched this long (nearly 2 hours). It is overstrung.Leading actors Colin Farrell, Russell Crowe and Will Smith act as if ... well, they do not act and they do not look in place. The conversations are lengthy and overdone. Crowe's supposed-to-be-hellish look from under is simply boring.I gave one point for the horse, and the other for the belle.A waste of time.