Jack the Giant Slayer Reviews
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.
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
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
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.
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
Guardian [UK]
Watchable in a ridiculous way, and director Bryan Singer supplies quite a bit of entertainment bang for your buck.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Once upon a time Hollywood was not interested in fairy tales. But just like comic books, they have proved to be the perfect big screen adventures for the 3D generation and bumper box office. Time to wake these sleeping giant stories.
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| Original Score: 7/10
Daily Telegraph
An honest swashbuckling romp with appealing pantomime overtones, and one of the better fairy tale films to date.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Birmingham Post
Jack the Giant Slayer is watchable enough, but seriously overlong at 114 minutes with only the extended, second ending offering full-throttle action.
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| Original Score: 3/5
ViewLondon
Engaging and enjoyable fairytale adventure, enlivened by strong performances, pacey direction and some superb special effects, though the script is surprisingly po-faced and lacks humour.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Sky Movies
Once upon a time there was a movie that stayed faithful to its fairy tale roots while adding some welcome folkloric touches of its own.
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| Original Score: 3/5
ABC Radio Brisbane
The dialogue is cheesy but there's still plenty of fun to be had with Jack The Giant Slayer.
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| Original Score: B+
The List
If nothing else, you get to see McGregor as a human-sized sausage roll - and it's not often you can say that.
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| Original Score: 3/5
ComingSoon.net
The only thing holding it back is the look of the effects. There's no way around it - Digital Domain's work on the Giants is substandard and all the scenery chewing of Bill Nighy (as the voice of the head giant) can't disguise the fact.
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| Original Score: 7.5/10
