THE WOMAN IN BLACK: 2012: +-: HRR: This is admittedly a BIG movie for Daniel Radcliff as he was just coming out of the Harry Potter series. Some artists wouldn't want to take a chance with a British Canadian/ Swedish horror script. He did and the results are somewhat interesting to attack on a critical level because if you exclude his work as Harry Potter, he isn't half bad. Could he have another place in Hollywood? Probably, as long as he doesn't hang out with the riff raff..
What I saw here was obviously a movie that took Heavily from The Others, a movie to be reviewed soon. The sets almost looked Exactly like the ones in that movie and it was almost embarrassing. Not to mention the part when there was a Terminator3 ( or one of those movies) effect used with the ghost that rose from the dead in a bed and looked precisely like the Terminator that was the liquid steel.
I digress, again. Let's just say that Mr. Radcliff did in fact have the fakest sideburns I have seen since Elvis impersonators and a painted on 5 o'clock shadow...the makeup artist should be and was probably FIRED after this one!.. BUT... It was way too long...
Another movie plagued by this pacing issue. It was basically a "house of horrors" movie whereby the house was the horror and it was similar to walking through an amusement park-like scenario. Only it took 45 minutes to get to the house! IS there something or someone out there telling directors that they need to drag movies on? They aren't going to build the suspense like The Shining so JUST STOP ASKING for 2 1/2 hour movies.
This movie would have been much better, much shorter! Do they think that people need to be in a movie theatre that long and it justifies the price? IS it dollar per minute? Don't try to make movies and theatrical art like a commodity.. Leave that up to the merchandisers. Let the directors direct and make good movies PLEASE!!
Sometimes you need to understand a GREAT movie by understanding why a mediocre movie doesn't "WOW" audiences. It's a very subtle quality that is hard to describe. Usually it has to do with plot pacing, cinematography, casting, and music. This movie didn't fail on anyone of those in particular, but didn't excel in one either. It's watchable because it shows how an actor can break the mold. It's mildly scary and I was scared a few times like when the woman showed up behind him and the woman hung herself.
Ideally, this is just going to have "cult appeal" because Harry Potter was in it and didn't butcher it. Plus it did use some nice tactics to scare you like with the mirror affect in the peripheral vision, but that was it. LOW 80s..:83%
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