Rating of
2/4
Review: The Woman in Black
MikePA - wrote on 04/13/12
I love the Harry Potter series, and I think Daniel Radcliffe is a good, very capable actor, but damn, he couldn't carry this movie on his own. He plays a boring, uninteresting, and underdeveloped character, and the audience is basically forced to follow him through a house for 3/4 of the film in which almost nothing happens. I, personally, thought that director James Watkins (Eden Lake) failed to deliver genuine suspense. When the character walks through the house, it's slowly pace, but you're not scared and you're not horrified of things to come. In the last 20 minutes, the suspense picks up a little bit, but not much.
There's just not much story, and it ended up getting really lousy and boring for me. Though the art direction, production value, and cinematography are all very good, that couldn't save this thin movie. Knowing that it was written by the writer of the terrific films X-Men: First Class and Kick-Ass, I was really hoping for something special and perhaps even pretty scary. The film has an ending that audiences will either love or hate. To be honest, I kind of hated it.
2/4 (Skip It)
