Review Time: this title is mixed, I want to
make this crystal clear this title just does enough to get pushed over from the
poor bracket into the mix bracket.
Fundamental elements: there are cultural
elements with and without subtitles, interpreter elements and why not have a
character that couldn't speak English to begin with can suddenly speak English
and then go back to not speaking English and I think it happens twice but I
wasn't keeping count, words and numbers on screen, slow-motion effects,
voice-over elements, place jumps and time jumps. I should now take a few
minutes just to point out after the first 25 minutes roughly, my interest in
this title was pretty much running on empty so it became a rescue mission for
this title to get me interested again and secondly somehow I got through it
eventually.
Artistic visions/Action sequences/Comedy level: now let's be positive for a little while from a visual perspective
this title is very good, most of the time of what I can remember there is
always something to look at and so on and so forth, moving on to the action
sequences, these also give this project value in one way or another such as the
underwater sequences, these show a very good imagination. The comedy level is
mixed from this perspective, yes on one hand generally speaking it is comical,
but on the other hand, if you are trying to make a sensible film or Universe
[they may have to think about what kind of Universe they want to build,]
meaning if you're going to have this level of comedy or elements of this comedy
in one film, you cannot really have it in just one film you have to have a
similar comedy level for it to be functional in your Universe [yes I am aware that
another Universe develops there elements according to what characters are
involved and their other elements, but briefly the other Universe has been
miles and miles ahead of the rest for years now, so they have earned that right
to do what they want when they want, I will be discussing the Universe thing
later on.]
Performances: in a nutshell they are maybe
poor to mixed [I don't know what to say,] because as I have already said I was
struggling with this title.
Dark Universe: now this may be going
off-topic slightly, but it will make sense eventually, why is everybody trying
to copy the MCU [Marvel Cinematic Universe] and before anyone responds I am
fully aware that it is big business financially, but my point is this; do you know
why the MCU do so well at the box office? [It is a rhetorical question and
there are many reasons,] but to be a little bit more specific now, the reason
why they are doing so well, it is because they plan out every single title
maybe years down the line, so they have this big jigsaw puzzle where they know
this title goes there, that title goes there and they basically or roughly show
more to this character or characters in this title and possibly future elements
plus other things in this one title and then move on to the next title, but
another Universe [I am coughing DCEU or whatever you want to call it] and this
Universe feels very rushed or just trying to do too much without achieving
much, you see I would have really limited the appearances of Henry Jekyll and
his alter ego, something like this; maybe sit this character in a black chair
facing away from the camera and only talking to the blonde character by
telephone or getting one of his people to do what he asks, but all we can see
of this character is maybe the telephone on a table and one arm and one hand
may be do this no more than four times throughout the film and once after the
closing credits so five times altogether [in the final scene this character
turns around in his chair, slightly angry that something didn't work roles up
his sleeves and says something to the effect of "If you want something
done right, you have to do-it-yourself" and at the same time his eyes
begin to change with that he stands up and leaves the scene. So when I released
this film based on this character, the audiences have some knowledge of this
character to begin with but just enough to get their posterior in the seats for
his title.
You see I am
already leaning towards being disinterested with this universe and it isn't
just based on this film, I have done some research and I have seen Dracula
Untold 2014 once and what I remember of it I wasn't to positive about it either
[I will have to watch it again to review it,] at the time I remember hearing
something to the effect that they were trying to make a Universe or something
like that involving these characters but I didn't think too much about it at
the time or there is always a possibility I had forgotten this; but either way
[based on the fact I haven't seen this title for a long time I would like to
say this; I could be wrong about myself not thinking too much about it, I am
not backtracking just covering my back.]
This film receives: 4/10, I have put
in one paragraph enough of what can or could be the positives to this project,
other than this; this title is a mess and I am concerned how this Universe will
move forward from here on out.
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