Rating of
2.5/4
Indyfreak - wrote on 09/23/19
Nicholas Hoult and Lilly Collins try their best with a standard biographical treatment of famed author JRR Tolkien.
If you saw the trailers and believed it was the Lord of the Rings crossed with World War One, the movie is as misleading as Sucker Punch. Hoult is alright I suppose. But Lilly Collins is actually quite good as his love interest and wife Edith Bratt.
It's too bad the WW1 scenes receive only some attention as some of the best acting are in those moments. The friendship between Tolkien and his college associates does feel genuine at times.
