Directed by:
Akiva GoldsmanScreenplay:
Akiva GoldsmanCinematography:
Caleb DeschanelCast:
Colin Farrell, Jessica Brown Findlay, Jennifer Connelly, William Hurt, Eva Marie Saint, Graham Greene, Russell Crowe, Kevin Corrigan, Kevin Durand (more)VOD (4)
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One night in winter New York, Peter attempts to rob a mansion. Though he thinks the house is empty, the daughter of the house is home. Thus begins the love between Peter, a young Irish burglar, and Beverly, a young girl, who is dying... Set in a mythic New York City and spanning more than a century, WINTER'S TALE is about miracles, crossed destinies, and the age-old battle between good and evil. Peter Lake is a master thief, who never expected to have his own heart stolen by the beautiful Beverly Penn. But their love is star-crossed: she burns with a deadly form of consumption, and Peter has been marked for a much more violent death by his one-time mentor, the demonic Pearly Soames. Peter desperately tries to save his one true love, across time, against the forces of darkness, even as Pearly does everything in his power to take him down - winner take all and loser be damned. What Peter needs is a miracle, but only time will tell if he can find one. (HBO Europe)
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I didn’t want to believe the ratings here, so I invested two hours of my time in a completely useless film that has everything a good film should have – music by Hans Zimmer and cast such as Farrell, Crowe or Connelly. The result, however, is unfortunately insipid and I think that the actors themselves must be ashamed of it. The classification of this as a fantasy romance is apt. It’s something like Titanic without the ship but with fantasy elements and a load of bullcrap. Simply horrible.
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The trailer is worth five stars and I could maybe play it over and over again. Mainly because it's actually a cut of the best scenes from the whole movie. The movie itself is a little worse. The first part was amazing, plus tons of romance. The second part was a disappointment, or at least it didn't fulfill me as much as I would have liked. The problem is mostly that the two parts don't make sense together somehow. But the gorgeous music, Colin Farrell, and the divine Russell Crowe as the "superhuman" still made it one of the better movies. Though the most charming was still Jessica Brown Findlay and her fantastically natural style. 3.5 stars.
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This concept itself is not bad. It is interesting to combine romance with fantastic, in this case basically fairytale, elements, on the other hand, it's nothing new either. Unfortunately, the film - quite rightly - appears to be unfinished, dysfunctional, and inconsistent. It somehow doesn't hold together, which is its biggest problem. However, there was a good start to something beautiful here.
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