Sorry, this movie sucks

Purely Joyful Movie!

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

I love fantasy, unlike my family. But to mix it in with an every day life scenario, it has to be done right. In the case of Pan's Labyrinth, the beautiful combination of the real war-torn world and the fantasy world worked spot on throughout the whole film.In this movie, the gaps of the fantasy world aren't really filled out properly. It presents itself as a world where demons and angels are fighting some kind of war. But the rules aren't very clear. This is made evident by the fact that the book is incredibly long and covers too much ground for it to be made in a film (Martin Scorsese himself deemed it unfilmable) The other, albeit much milder, problem I have with the movie is Will Smith as Lucifer. Now don't get me wrong, I LOVE Will Smith, but this just doesn't work. To play the devil, an actor has to have two things: Irresistible charm and the ability to terrify the wits out of you. Smith definitely has the first, but not so much the second. It unfortunately ends up being too sickly sweet and clichèd for my liking.

An usefull film. this is the first impression. for the romanticism, characters and story. for vulnerability. and for the hope. and, sure, for the remind of small things defining us. a film about love, survive, myths and hope. about essential meetings. and about second chance. sure, the critics are many and, obvious, many are correct. but this adaptation has the gift to make the old recipes of magic, happines, sacrifice be in a new light. and this detail is real important. for each viewer. maybe, for discover yourself and the others. from a better perspective.

The film incorporates ancient beliefs about life. We are all connected by light. We turn into stars when we die. There is one miracle in all of us.The gods/angels/demons intervene.In our tale Peter (Colin Farrell) is a thief in NYC. He leaves the dark side run by a demon Pearly (Russell Crowe) and joins the good side. Pearly works for Lucifer (Will Smith) and is after Peter who meanwhile falls in love with a pretty redhead (Jessica Brown Findlay) who is about to die from TB. Peter literally lifts her off her feet and rides off on a magical white horse. This leaves me really skeptical: Did a guy really write this? This is a slow developing story. It has several good scenes and a number of snooze scenes. I would leave out the narration which assumes the audience are idiots and work whatever ideas it gives us into the Lucifer dialog.This is a soft PG-13.

I enjoys the first half of this movie, although the romance between Peter and Beverly did feel very rushed at first (you know cliché when people fall deeply in love and first sight). I mean the guy had just met her like a day ago and was saying that he loved her so much and all this. But whatever, once I got past it's rushed beginnings their relationship was quite cute, I shipped it. I would have been happy to watch a movie that was just focused on their relationship like a normal chick flick but no. The plot was a mess of too many different aspects, it would have been a lot better if they could have just picked a plot line. Like really, they didn't need to have the whole demon mafia aspect or the weird white horse/dog thing. Although I understand this movie was based off a book however I have never read it myself, I understand that maybe they had to keep in those, in my opinion, pointless aspects to remain true to the book. However from what I've heard, fans of the book were not very impressed by this movie either. In my opinion this movie was just trying to do too much and isn't really worth your time.