Wednesday, 13 February 2013

Gerry Barnaby's Film Review: Beautiful Creatures

Genre: Drama Fantasy Romance Contains mild horror sences & romance

Cert: 12 cert

Story: A supernatural love story set in the South, "Beautiful Creatures" tells the tale of two star-crossed lovers: Ethan (Alden Ehrenreich), a young man longing to escape his small town, and Lena (Alice Englert), a mysterious new girl. Together, they uncover dark secrets about their respective families, their history and their town

Likes : ok this film was ok to watch not the greatest of films ive seen but still watchable,cast in this was pretty much soild & well placed,special effect were good as well.Alden Ehrenreich play Ethan Wate who seem to be draw to this girl he been dreaming about but when he mets her things start to take a funny twist as he falls in love with her.Alice Englert plays Lena Duchannes a girl who has supernatural powers & at the age of 16 her power iver turn to the dark or light but has a curse spanding from long ago who falls in love with ethan but must push him away,i found her character to be very lonely but you could see why she push him away.Jeremy Irons plays Macon Ravenwood now his character seem to be protecting lena because of her up & coming 16th birthday because they seem to be scraed of her because she is like her mother a very powerful spell caster.Viola Davis play Amma the handler or what you call a watcher for the spell casters,she seem to be looking after ethan for some reason after his parents where killed in a car accident. Emmy Rossum plays the evil Ridley Duchannes a spell caster of the family who power at the age of 16 turn to the dark side of magic she became a serien,now i found her character to be very ruthless & uncaring towards people.Thomas Mann (cameo) plays ethan friend Link who get cought up in a evil twisted plan to turn lena to evil.Emma Thompson plays Mrs. Lincoln / Sarafine, nw her character seem to play two parts one side is this reglious person that go to church & read the bible the other side is being taken over by sarafine a very powerful evil spellcaster who seem to be in spirit form control mrs lincoln body.Eileen Atkins (cameo) plays the gramma of raven wood who dosent like ridley one little bit.Margo Martindale (cameo) plays Aunt Del there isnt much to say on her as she not in the film much.playing the two stuck up school girls Zoey Deutch plays Emily Asher who is still in love with ethan & hates the fact hes with lena,Tiffany Boone plays Savannah Snow who seem to like putting other down along with emily.Kyle Gallner (cameo) plays iver the cousin or bother of lena you dont see much of his character in this film he is only in a few sences.it like i said enjotable to watch but nt the best film ive seen.

Dislike: Watching this film it was more aimed a the romance side of the story than horror,dont get me wrong i do like some romance films but this really did feel like watch a twilight film just with a different theme,it felt like a copy of it, i think its this that lets this film down slightly.For the theme of this film they could of made it a little more creeper & a little darker,it just felt a little tame in the storyline for me it why for me it wasnt a great film.i do like twilight but when films try to copy theme of other films it just dosent work.it not for everyone to like but if you like twilight your probaley like this or not.its slightly a little slow.

Overall : Feels like a twilight film with a different theme,enjoyable to watch but far from a good film,it depends on what you like.

Rating: 3.4 out of 5 for entertainment / 5.3 out of 10 for theme & concept.

 

No comments:

Post a Comment