Jack the Giant Slayer Reviews
Spectrum (St. George, Utah)
Apparently spent most of its 'giant' $195 million budget on lavish, impressive special effects and nary a tinker's nickel on the ho-hum script.
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| Original Score: C+
Screenwize
The cast seem stilted, even a bit surprised, to find themselves in the fictitious land of Cloister, dressed in panto regalia with dreadful hair-dos, no doubt under orders to deliver their lines with a touch of deliberate theatricality.
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| Original Score: 2/5
3AW
Thanks to the marvel of digital visual effects and the clear influence of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings, [director Bryan] Singer does a terrific job showing us just how realistic a battle set in a fantasy world can look.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Cinemalogue.com
... a clever yet gentle twist on a familiar story, and one that multiple generations can share.
Concrete Playground
Between the magic beans or a ticket to this film... maybe take the beans.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Daily Star
Singer is more concerned with old-fashioned storytelling than chasing a target audience's fleeting fads.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Movie Chambers
You don't know Jack. And, I'm not so sure you want to get to know him, because he's a bit on the bland side.
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| Original Score: C-
Flix Capacitor
More half-hearted than a total dud, but flatulent, nose-picking CGI creations are beneath the man who gave us The Usual Suspects.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Radio Times
This is, at best, dull escapism but there are a few reasons to keep watching, including Stanley Tucci camping away as the hissable villain and knight Ewan McGregor being sausage-rolled up by a chef colossus.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Contactmusic.com
We may sigh heavily at the thought of yet another fairy tale blockbuster, but the filmmakers and cast here demand a bit more attention. And sure enough, it's refreshingly smarter and funnier than we expect.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Flick Filosopher
It could almost be funny, how Jack keeps trying to fly off into could-be fascinating directions and then gets yanked back into a mushy mediocrity.
Movie Talk
McGregor's dashing Elmont never loses his posh sang-froid... and with Tucci gleefully hamming it up as the villain, it's the supporting cast who are full of beans, rather than the overshadowed young leads.
Daily Express
Singer does a respectable job of turning a fairytale into a muscular epic but my overriding impression was: why bother? Fee...Fye....Foe....Hmmm.
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| Original Score: 3/5
This is London
A story of derring do and social climbing, serving as an excuse for colossal battles with a load more orcs, the true purpose of the movie.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Sun Online
Far from perfect but not without it's moments of fee-fi-fo-fun.
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| Original Score: 3/5
HeyUGuys
Singer should be commended for bringing this fairytale to life triumphantly, enlarging it for the cinema screen, and adding that epic quality a film such as this requires.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Daily Mail [UK]
Its conflation of two old English folk-tales, Jack And The Beanstalk and Jack The Giant Killer, turns out to be among the most enjoyable of fairytale fantasies.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Daily Mirror [UK]
An action-packed and swashbuckling cool fantasy adventure ...
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| Original Score: 4/5
Cinema Signals
An adventurous lad in a class-challenged romance and a complete overhaul of a classic. The biggest surprise is how well it's crafted and portrayed by a very able cast.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
