markcasa-63624
Well during the last year I was living in London I was excited to seeing Jack the Giant slayer but sadly I was unable to see the movie for some reason. Just because I just didn't see it. I later saw this movie on an airplane coming from Miami to Dubai where we moved to in 2013. I really liked the movie and for a while it was one of my all time favourites. I remember when Ewan Mcgregers character jumping onto the beanstalk before the Giants could climb down and I was like. So everything is resolved, Jack and the princess are safe and none of the characters I like are dead, so I was like thats it right. But then the giants find some of the beans my the waterfall entrance and they use it to get down to the ground and I was like. Holy sh-t. This is going to be epic. Basically the rest of the movie is the giants trying to take down the castle and get inside and everyone is working together to try and stop them. Having not seeing this movie in a long time so I cant really talk about this movie that much. Why don't I do a pro and cons.Pros:1. Ewan McGregor was awesome in this movie. He's really good in all the roles he does.2. The music is pretty good.3. A-lot of the characters are really likeable to me, even the king.4. The last 30 minutes were just great.5. The giant leader and his second in command was awesome.Cons:1. That thing about the giants just wanting eat the princess or at least the giant king because she's related to the king who banished the giants by blood. Which I just find stupid.2. The main human antagonist Roderick dies looking like and idiot.3. The special effects aren't that good. Some stuff looks nice but the giants look like they were being rendered on screen. In my opinion the cgi looks better at the end of the movie, but it still looks bad in the first 2/3's of the movie.For all these things I give this movie a 10 out of 10. The bad stuff I listed isn't enough for me to hate this movie.
flavia_cj
A very boring, empty and forgettable movie. The characters are caricatures that do not instill empathy, anger or admiration. There came a time when I did not care one bit if the hero and the girl finished devoured by giant. And then, when a character dies there in the middle of the film, and others cry under their symbolic grave, I could not care less. The film did not offer enough time for to know better that character, and so, I can't have felt sorry for him.Moreover, the only female character throughout history is just a "damsel in distress" - In other words, a useless woman - and this movie is 2013, which shows how uninspired and unoriginal this film is.Here the giant creatures are one-dimensional, no depth, and too stupid villains to gain some kind of reverence to the public. What the hell was the giant rip-off "Gollum of two heads"? It was supposed to be funny? It was supposed to be scary? And why the hell there are only male giant? How the hell they reproduce? How they emerged as society with only males? Why are there no giant children?Yes, if they wanted to show many giants, not just one, they should have been concerned about these simple questions. As we see, this film is so weak that not bothered to bring a credible society to the viewer. This movie It's very bullshit, even for children.
sanjayasantoso
For a movie that was supposed to entertain its audiences, 'Jack The Giant Slayer' deserved to be rated as a 4 star movie because it offers the fun to the audiences as a rapid and nonstop thrilling movie.. Making a fairy tale and twist it a little into a movie that entertain its audiences, I thought Bryan Singer did a great job in here.. For cast perhaps there's not much well-known actors involved except Ewan McGregor, Stanley Tucci, and the future girl's heart-rob actor Nicholas Hoult.. Their performance just okay and they looks like they're having fun with their adventure in this movie.. For the story itself, I like how Bryan Singer almost wrapped this adventure in an hour and a half and instead of finishing it with an open ending for a sequel possibility, he adds the fun which is the climax of this movie in the last 30 minutes.. Overall, I like how it's made and it is a fun movie to be watched..
David Arnold
Jack, a mere farm boy, has been raised by his uncle after his father died when he was young. After travelling to market to sell one of their horses, Jack unwittingly ends up rescuing Princess Isabelle during an incident. Later on, Jack is then given what looks to be regular beans by a monk for safe keeping, but is told they are in fact ancient magical relics. Out during a stormy night, Isabelle seeks refuge at Jack's but after one of the beans ends up getting wet, his house (along with Isabelle) ends up at the top of a massive beanstalk. Jack now finds himself on a mission to help rescue Isabelle from a land of giants that he thought was only a myth.As we all know, Jack The Giant Slayer is a movie adaptation of the classic Jack and the Beanstalk fairytale but this fairytale isn't for kiddies. The PG-13 rating does it justice too because a lot of the scenes involving the giants are pretty intense and the fight scenes are quite violent. This is a "grown-up" version of the story, and it's a very enjoyable one at that.The scale of this film is HUGE and when watching it you can definitely see where the $195m budget went. The visual effects are nothing short of amazing and this film is absolutely full of eye candy. The way everything was done, from the growing of the beanstalk to the minute details of the giants, was really impressive. The giants were done big, they were done nasty, and they were done mean and I'm glad they were done like this as anything less then it would have actually felt like you were watching a wee fairytale instead of a good action fantasy adventure film.The film cast done a really good job with their parts as well, especially those of Ewan McGregor and Ewan Bremner. I don't like Ian McShane, but even he done a decent job as the king.This film is actually as good as I was hoping it was and if you enjoy action fantasy adventures like Lord Of The Rings and The Hobbit then you will enjoy Jack The Giant Slayer.Excellent film.
AD
