To be honest I got the same feeling watching this as I did watching The Evil Dead, Assault on Precinct 13, The Fog, Nightmare on Elm Street and the recent Pet Semetery reboots. Un-necessary remakes / reboots. Adding nothing to the mythology of the story. Don't get me wrong, this is not an entirely bad film, in fact, if the Del Toro movies didn't exist, I would have probably rated this film a lot higher. But they do, and this is lacking in comparison. I quite enjoyed the fact most of it was set in the UK, and didn't really find issue with the CGI, something a lot of people have criticised. But it has to be said that some of the acting was terrible and hammy. The character development was almost none existent. And Ian McShane was just soooooo camp, as was Milla Jovovich.
The bottom-line is, yeah this is an ok film, but nowhere near as good as the Del Toro movies. I'm not sure if this was the setup for a Netflix etc, type TV series, which actually could work a lot better than a movie. Oh well. 6 stars and I'm being generous with that score.
The bottom-line is, yeah this is an ok film, but nowhere near as good as the Del Toro movies. I'm not sure if this was the setup for a Netflix etc, type TV series, which actually could work a lot better than a movie. Oh well. 6 stars and I'm being generous with that score.
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