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Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) - Review

Despite some positive qualities, "Jack - the conqueror of the giants", the audience quickly forget about this movie. It will merge into memory along with a dozen other moderately decent fantasy, mostly - from the last century. But the fact of commercial insolvency picture of Bryan Singer may be to some extent a landmark event for the industry. This is the latest and perhaps the most obvious example of that progressive humanity frankly bored with the classic fairy tale, filmed in the usual style.

In terms of plot and direction, like the movie could have easily come and thirty and sixty years ago - in a similar way at the time adapted enough stories of folklore. By modern standards, as everything is too predictable and banal - the development of the plot, the characters are simple, stylized world beyond the screen. Even the action - and that is not specifically a standout. Not in the sense of "bad", no - but the appropriate level of Hollywood production, we see no less than a couple of times a month (and in the summer, and that more often).

In general, it's tempting to draw a parallel between "Jack" and the recent "Oz" - similar at first glance, they have important differences. Sam Raimi, removing, in general, was a children's movie, sometimes allowed to insert it into something foreign - to take at least ambiguous relationship of the protagonist with numerous women, or a monkey as a local black man. You can start the discussion: say, this does not make the usual multi-layered story better, but we do not quite know. Just at this contrast becomes apparent deliberate simplicity of tape Singer, where is all the tricks, Promises and thoughts are on the surface.

However, you do not want to curse "Jack" for being too academic quality - he turned out quite enjoyable film where everything is held on even-dimensional, but still charming heroes. The director "X-Men" represent a good skill in the bright light of the images of characters, they did, in fact, without disclosing the course of history. Here take the protagonist played by Nicholas Hoult - the guy from the first minute is already in the final point of its development: once it is clear which way and to what baggage he will come to a head. At the same time watching him still interesting - even some of the features of a wooden actor playing somehow cause tenderness. Well, with or McGregor Tucci, who also zaklishirovannye role - melancholic brave and cunning bastard with a high skill sociability. A hundred times already met these fellows - and still these two are attracted some attention.

The Giants also common and are fabulous - incredibly stupid, vile in the home and for some reason residing exclusively in the male commune. Apart from the general who just wanted to call Davy Jones, monsters are almost abstract evil force without imputed motivation - they exist only in order to once again play offensively because of some plot conventions.

Relations between the characters with the giants for an adequate story, questions to which it is better not to ask. Imagine being a grandmother (or grandfather) read you something from Russian folk and (at worst myths of ancient Greece) - here is about the same. It's all right exactly as long as you try to analyze events in all seriousness, no discount on the fabulousness.

The only serious question to the choreographer - is it even here he could not do without your favorite steel-gray stylized images? Clearly, in the comics with a claim to realism is appropriate. But, Brian, why do so discolor fantasy, where the already only three locations on the half hour? But someone will look at this 3D! ..

The rest of the claims seriously lead to the "Jack" is difficult. It's like that alternately criticize all the existing techniques of cinema over the past one hundred years. Movie magic still works there - is another matter that in, sorry, radically new experience at a time is not here. Spectators in its total mass, or are tired of the traditional fairy tales at all, or subconsciously waiting for something like "Stardust" or even some of the postmodern. This is really might surprise.

5/5

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