Jack the Giant Slayer Reviews
IGN Movies
Jack the Giant Slayer tries to hit all of the quadrants, but more often than not, misses the mark and hits none fully. It's entertaining enough, as mentioned, but fails to be a revelation.
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| Original Score: 6.8/10
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
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
Toledo Blade
The original release date of Jack the Giant Slayer was pushed back several months, in part, to accommodate the special effects crew. As it turns out, that was the least of the film's problems.
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| Original Score: 2/4
CraveOnline
Finally... a movie where the problems of three little people actually amount to a hill of beans.
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| Original Score: 2/10
Examiner.com
Chock full of paper thin characters and dated special effects, Jack the Giant Slayer is mostly just extremely predictable and seems massively unnecessary.
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| Original Score: 4/10
2UE That Movie Show
Jack and the Giant Slayer is yet another passionless money grab that doesn't deserve the talent who just had the golden goose 'decorate' their resume.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
Slant Magazine
This epic waste of $190 million plunders the grab bag of overused plotlines, failing to put its own stamp on much of anything.
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| Original Score: .5/4
Digital Spy
Here's hoping X-Men: Days of Future Past can restore Singer to his former glory - it's become easy to forget that he was essentially the JJ Abrams of the noughties - because this dim-witted action fable isn't going to cut it.
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| Original Score: 2/5
The Skinny
The felling of the beanstalk is - especially in 3D - a dynamic set piece, but it is too little to elevate the film to anything more than mundanity.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Scotsman
Bloodless violence and fart jokes suggests this is aimed at kids - but the swearing, and fee-fi-ho-hum plot, are not.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Flicks.co.nz
Slightly more watchable than the chore I anticipated.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Las Vegas Weekly
An utterly generic Hollywood product, easily envisioned by plugging 'Jack and the beanstalk' and 'action blockbuster' into a theoretical screenplay generator.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Daily Film Fix
Jack the Giant Slayer has no business being on the big screen, and I suspect as audiences get a whiff of the schlocky approach, it won't be there very long.
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| Original Score: 4.5/10
San Diego Union-Tribune
It's all at the right level for a PG-13 audience, though older teens, and adults not accompanying kids, might find it all to be just a little too storybook.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
A movie made solely to land a healthy weekend box office then move on to the global market for a return on its investment. As a business strategy, it makes sense. As an instance if cinema, it's a bit depressing.
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| Original Score: C
Badass Digest
This is what it looks like when no one cares about a movie. This is a movie as pure product, cinema rendered utterly soulless, with no aspirations beyond getting your money opening weekend.
What the Flick?!
The beanstalk looks great; everything else is ugly, or fakey, or both.
Top CriticBy the time the giants have descended the beanstalk and laid siege to the king's castle, and the boiling oil comes out with the flaming arrows and the flying flaming trees, it's like: Enough already.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Jack's problem is that he's a commoner, but the movie's problem is that its script is commoner still, an enchantment-free pretext for animated action, straight-ahead storytelling and ersatz romance.
