Oliver Twist Reviews

Since I'm a huge fan of Roman Polanski, I feel compelled to watch all his movies and even though I wasn’t expecting much from this flick, I still wanted to check it out. Indeed, this is a very old story which has already been told so many times before and I have even already seen the musical version and even the cartoon versions where the characters are portrayed by cats and dogs so, honestly, personally, I'm quite done with this tale. Anyway, how was the end result? Like any Polanski flick, the directing was nothing short of amazing, the movie was really beautiful to look at and I also enjoyed the performances of the whole cast, especially Harry Eden who was quite brilliant as Artful Dodger. However, even though the movie seemed to be rather faithful to the original story (I haven't read the book though so I can’t really tell actually), they didn't add anything really new or interesting to the mix so the whole thing seemed to be a beautiful but also pointless and honestly rather boring exercise. Still, it is a very well made flick and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you are interested in Polanski's work.