
Writer: Jane Goldman
Starring: Eva Green
Asa Butterfield
Chris O'Dowd
Allison Janney
Rupert Everett
Judi Dench
Terence Stamp
Ella Purnell
Samuel L. Jackson
Rating: **
Release Date: Out Now
Miss Peregrine has everything a film needs for the perfect recipe of a winning blockbuster. Directed by the imaginative and explorative Tim Burton, Written by the dry and sharp Jane Goldman and starring Oscar Winners and Nominees and superb young actors. However the finished product is busy, cold and anti-climactic. This film might go down as being the biggest disappointment of 2016, in my opinion.
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Judi Dench |
Asa Butterfield and Ella Purnell are wonderful young actors who relish their scenes and in each role I've seen them in thy have always been extremely captivating. Butterfield especially is the perfect driving force for this film and carries the whole story along with great maturity. That being said, the script is so convoluted and jam packed, that it got far too confusing and lost; causing the performances to take a blow.
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Eva Green & Asa Butterfield |
I have always loved Jane Goldman's work, from kick-ass to Kingsman and all that's in between; but her writing in this film felt disconnected from herself and actors. The feeling for me, was that writer and director had very different visions; and the two just couldn't quite meet in the middle. Burton tries to conjure up one of his usual, busy, visual masterpieces, while Goldman's script was equally as busy; resulting in a muddled film that lost all of it's heart, which in turn lost my interest and then the ending just felt like a non-event.
It had all of the ingredients to be a superbly visual, dramatic and elaborate film that people would have been talking about for years to come, but instead it had the complete opposite effect and left me wanting the end, not wanting more.
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