Hollywood has been re-imagining fairy tales into new scale blockbusters these days and all of those films had ambitions of their own. One wants to be sexy, the other tries to be gritty and epic, and lastly the most recent one tries to be campy, mature, and violent. Though, many of them didn't work by some of their directorial pretentiousness, or just terrible filmmaking or writing choices. Jack The Giant Slayer simply fills the journey with enjoyable adventures and thrills. It has the potential of becoming a modest modern classic. It's getting closer but it's still a solid adventurous blockbuster that would satisfy for the ones who seeks for some excitement because this film really knows how to have fun.
It was recently criticized for being corny and visually dated. It's reasonable why people would react that way especially since our blockbusters nowadays are getting darker and had much better special effects leaving these giant creatures look underwhelming. But if you ignore the quality of the creature designs, the new story is better than any other fairy tale re-envisioned films had offered to the screen. It has a clever new mythology and plot that makes it intriguing. Of course, it is all about the adventure and the film is rich in that. It does more than glossing it over by the visual effects. It has the sense of excitement and has plenty of suspense and fortitude.
The story and character development could have been rich as well. Not saying the characters are bland. The characters here are actually much lively than any characters from most modern blockbuster. We should thank that to the actors. Nicholas Hoult blatantly has the looks of an adventure hero, that's the same with Eleanor Tomlinson as a Princess, but they both make the characters appealing. Ewan McGregor gives a fun personality to his character who is usually serious but also dashing. Ian McShane wonderfully shows the King's fatherly trait. For the villains, Stanley Tucci effectively plays it playful and mischievous, and Bill Nighy uses his threatening villainous turn as voicing the boss giant.
It's directed by Bryan Singer and he brings a total enjoyment to the action. The writing could have improved to the parts that falter but overall it is still pretty good. The effects is solid enough, though the giants are not that amazing nor awesomely scary but they only tend to look like typical monsters. The production designs and costumes somehow says it all. You see most films set in medieval times always have dirty armory, weapons, and inventory because those days were brutal and gritty but here they are somewhat clean and that explains the tone of the film. It's not dreadfully dark but it's just simply adventurous if you know what I'm saying. They are all eye candy.
Jack The Giant Slayer might be the top among these blockbusterized fairy tale films. The others are just pretentious, dull, and bland. This one is large in scale but has life. Some of its life gaps in some parts, but why bother? This is just a blockbuster that wants to be exciting. Even though the visuals are not that innovating, the film does more than showing off its CGI. Since moviegoers' only pleasure today is to see the most appealing special effects, well this may not be everyone's first choice but it shows the example of what a fun film truly is. It's not a classic, yet it's smart and thrilling enough. It's still flawed but at least better than any other pretentious generic dreads, Jack The Giant Slayer is a solid fantasy film.
It was recently criticized for being corny and visually dated. It's reasonable why people would react that way especially since our blockbusters nowadays are getting darker and had much better special effects leaving these giant creatures look underwhelming. But if you ignore the quality of the creature designs, the new story is better than any other fairy tale re-envisioned films had offered to the screen. It has a clever new mythology and plot that makes it intriguing. Of course, it is all about the adventure and the film is rich in that. It does more than glossing it over by the visual effects. It has the sense of excitement and has plenty of suspense and fortitude.
The story and character development could have been rich as well. Not saying the characters are bland. The characters here are actually much lively than any characters from most modern blockbuster. We should thank that to the actors. Nicholas Hoult blatantly has the looks of an adventure hero, that's the same with Eleanor Tomlinson as a Princess, but they both make the characters appealing. Ewan McGregor gives a fun personality to his character who is usually serious but also dashing. Ian McShane wonderfully shows the King's fatherly trait. For the villains, Stanley Tucci effectively plays it playful and mischievous, and Bill Nighy uses his threatening villainous turn as voicing the boss giant.
It's directed by Bryan Singer and he brings a total enjoyment to the action. The writing could have improved to the parts that falter but overall it is still pretty good. The effects is solid enough, though the giants are not that amazing nor awesomely scary but they only tend to look like typical monsters. The production designs and costumes somehow says it all. You see most films set in medieval times always have dirty armory, weapons, and inventory because those days were brutal and gritty but here they are somewhat clean and that explains the tone of the film. It's not dreadfully dark but it's just simply adventurous if you know what I'm saying. They are all eye candy.
Jack The Giant Slayer might be the top among these blockbusterized fairy tale films. The others are just pretentious, dull, and bland. This one is large in scale but has life. Some of its life gaps in some parts, but why bother? This is just a blockbuster that wants to be exciting. Even though the visuals are not that innovating, the film does more than showing off its CGI. Since moviegoers' only pleasure today is to see the most appealing special effects, well this may not be everyone's first choice but it shows the example of what a fun film truly is. It's not a classic, yet it's smart and thrilling enough. It's still flawed but at least better than any other pretentious generic dreads, Jack The Giant Slayer is a solid fantasy film.