I got to watch this movie because my father and brother love the novel, i myself have never read it. Knowing almost nothing about the plot, after the film finished I felt unsatisfy because even though this film has all the material needed to become a classic: great acting, good music, great original plot from the novel,... but it missed the struggle needed to make us feel for Remi (the main character). Basically in his status he should have had an excruciating hard life but instead in this movie almost every people loved him and treat him kind and protect him, he never actually has to do anything on his own to survive and in the end he still get happily rewarded. So that really make me feel unsatisfy because the movie could have been so much better.
Thank you for reading until the end, forgive me if there are mistakes in this review because I'm not a native English user.
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The visual were entertaining but don't expect anything more
18 November 2016
First, I'm an ordinary movie goer that have never done a review before.Second, English is my second language so please forgive my horrible grammar.
I've just return from the cinema and was extremely disappointed. There are only 2 good things from the movie: Eddie Redmayne and the special effects. Eddie Redmayne did a fine job and his screen time was memorable. The CGI was also amazing except for the monster in the end. Now for the bad things, personally I felt that this movie was blessed with no charm what-so-ever, it was too Hollywood-lized with all the clichés you can think of: fat guy for comedic purpose, dump lead female who is useless and love the male lead for no real reason (in this one even the chemistry between them is terrible and she's not even pretty), unnecessary explosions, predictable plot twist,... What makes it even worse is the confusing plot, it's like the director couldn't figure out whether should this movie is about fighting bad guys or about the adventure of finding the Fantastic beasts so he decided to put them all in a blender and turn it on. That leads to the lack of character development, except for Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) who was somewhat interesting I don't really know what the other characters were doing in this movie. Even the supposed "villain" was feeling too forced and I'm not even sure why he was considered dangerous (he doesn't really harm anyone in this movie).
Go see this movie if you are entertained by CGI visuals. If you expected it to be as good as Harry Potter then I suggest you should lower your expectation by like a lot because It will disappoint you. I rate 6/10.
I've just return from the cinema and was extremely disappointed. There are only 2 good things from the movie: Eddie Redmayne and the special effects. Eddie Redmayne did a fine job and his screen time was memorable. The CGI was also amazing except for the monster in the end. Now for the bad things, personally I felt that this movie was blessed with no charm what-so-ever, it was too Hollywood-lized with all the clichés you can think of: fat guy for comedic purpose, dump lead female who is useless and love the male lead for no real reason (in this one even the chemistry between them is terrible and she's not even pretty), unnecessary explosions, predictable plot twist,... What makes it even worse is the confusing plot, it's like the director couldn't figure out whether should this movie is about fighting bad guys or about the adventure of finding the Fantastic beasts so he decided to put them all in a blender and turn it on. That leads to the lack of character development, except for Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) who was somewhat interesting I don't really know what the other characters were doing in this movie. Even the supposed "villain" was feeling too forced and I'm not even sure why he was considered dangerous (he doesn't really harm anyone in this movie).
Go see this movie if you are entertained by CGI visuals. If you expected it to be as good as Harry Potter then I suggest you should lower your expectation by like a lot because It will disappoint you. I rate 6/10.
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