Cast: Hugh Jackman, Garett Hedlund, Rooney Mara.
Director: Joe Wright
Joe Wright's "Pan" is rarely as good as its opening sequence.
It's one which puts the stuff of childhood playtimes and active little boys imaginations into world of reality with pirate ships soaring through the skies.
Once the film heads to Neverland, it's almost as if some of the vivid imagination is lost.
The film's a prequel to J.M.Barrie's classic Peter Pan stories and deals with the abandonment of Peter (Levi Miller) and his dream of escaping the orphanage. Peter waits up one evening only to find his suspicions given form. Swept up in the theft and onto Blackbeard's pirate ships, Peter finds himself in a new world facing even more peril.
Mainly in the shape of a prophecy and a pirate Blackbeard (Hugh Jackman)who believes that Peter will try to overthrow him. However, with the native princess Tigerly (Mara) and rogueish Hook(Hedlund), Peter finds he has friends that he never expected in this battle.
Pan is, in fact, a mix of so many other influences of film that it occasionally struggles to garner an identity of its own. Joe Wright's "Pan" is certainly the most technically sophisticated.
Wright offers a number of solid action sequences along the way. But at no point in the entire film is any character allowed to have any fun at all, which is also a devastating flaw for the movie that was supposed to be set in a wonderland of play and arrested childhood innocence.
A little more work on the characters and this "Pan" prequel really could have flown as high as Peter believes he could.
Rating: 2/5.
Watch it or not?
Save your money, this movie isn't worth your morning shows (you would rather sleep in the theater).
Available in torrents now. So, Go Pirates.
Director: Joe Wright
Joe Wright's "Pan" is rarely as good as its opening sequence.
It's one which puts the stuff of childhood playtimes and active little boys imaginations into world of reality with pirate ships soaring through the skies.
Once the film heads to Neverland, it's almost as if some of the vivid imagination is lost.
The film's a prequel to J.M.Barrie's classic Peter Pan stories and deals with the abandonment of Peter (Levi Miller) and his dream of escaping the orphanage. Peter waits up one evening only to find his suspicions given form. Swept up in the theft and onto Blackbeard's pirate ships, Peter finds himself in a new world facing even more peril.
Pan is, in fact, a mix of so many other influences of film that it occasionally struggles to garner an identity of its own. Joe Wright's "Pan" is certainly the most technically sophisticated.
Wright offers a number of solid action sequences along the way. But at no point in the entire film is any character allowed to have any fun at all, which is also a devastating flaw for the movie that was supposed to be set in a wonderland of play and arrested childhood innocence.
A little more work on the characters and this "Pan" prequel really could have flown as high as Peter believes he could.
Rating: 2/5.
Watch it or not?
Save your money, this movie isn't worth your morning shows (you would rather sleep in the theater).
Available in torrents now. So, Go Pirates.
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