4/10
The Marsh King's Daughter
21 January 2024
Helena has grown up in isolated marshland in awe of her father who teaches her advanced survival skills and disdain for her mother. When it becomes clear that her father is in fact a nut and ends up in prison, Helena grows up with a normal job and a husband and young daughter. Then her obsessive father escapes from prison.

This all starts interestingly enough with bad dad Ben Mendelsohn showing the excellent Brooklynn Prince the way around the woods. What follows is then grown up Daisy Ridley - perfectly good performance - realising that to save her own daughter she must seek out and sort daddy out. Thereafter, whilst in no way bad, it turns into a rather predictable little league Deliverance leading to an enjoyable but not very surprising conclusion. Watchable.
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