BRENDAN FRASER - MOVIE REVIEWS INKHEART

MOVIE REVIEWS INKHEART

Inkheart is about a book buyer, played by Brendan Fraser, who has the power to extract characters from books, bring them into the real world and put them back into the fictional world again. "I never knew reading was so dangerous. No child seeing Inkheart will ever want to be read to again," writes Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times , who, perhaps grudgingly, gives the film two stars. A.O. Scott in the New York Times comments that the movie "aims for a blend of whimsy and tingly suspense but botches nearly every spell it tries to cast." Michael Sragow in the Baltimore Sun says that the apparent goal of the filmmakers was laudable -- to show "reading as a source of love, mystery and terror." He adds "Cold, bland and gimmicky -- that's how the movie has turned out." Kyle Smith in the New York Post concludes " Inkheart makes as much sense as an inkblot." And Wesley Morris on the Boston Globe winds up his review this way " Inkheart illustrates an obvious problem with making a movie about the joys of reading when the movie made is labored and sludgy looking Why bother seeing it if you can stay home and read a book instead?"

23/01/2009