The Golden Compass Sucked

I saw The Golden Compass last night so I could give HG readers my review. Here’s the report card:

Acting: B

Special Effects: C

Story: F-

The Golden Compass cost around $190 million, and despite a lot of effort nothing could fix a story so poorly written I began to beg for the movie to end about 15 minutes into it. Whoever wrote this story forgot how to write. There were many odd moments, especially the ending that made everyone say, "huh? That’s it?" Daniel Craig and Nicole Kidman gave their usual great performances, but neither the acting nor the very expensive special effects could save a movie that had a horribly written story. This movie is not worth watching, not even on DVD. The studio plans to make a second and third sequel, which will certainly mean bankruptcy for them unless they find a much better group of writers.

Update: No one is bashing Nicole Kidman’s acting in this movie. The books are probably really good, but the script writers who translated the books onto the movie screen did a terrible job, which means the movie’s story line sucked big time. The only way to fix that is to get better script writers to translate the book’s storyline better like was done in Lord of the Rings for example. I don’t need to read the book, or books, to see that the movie script is terrible, and doesn’t even follow what is accepted practice for writing a three act movie. The sad part is that many are trying to blame this on Nicole Kidman because she’s a big star. The only thing that was Nicole’s fault was accepting the part in this movie. I can only assume she didn’t read every last detail of the script. The scenes would cut off when you knew the characters should have done a few more things, or said a few more things, before the scene ended. Other events were not even explained. Terrible script, which unfortunately, and unfairly, has a negative reflection on the books.