An average movie

I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but, since I have a weak spot for Millie Bobby Brown and since it was available on Netflix, I thought I might as well check it out. To be honest, I think the poster pretty much spoiled the damned thing. Indeed, you get to see the young actress looking pretty badass with a sword so you know from the start that she will fight some dragon from the very beginning but, seriously, it took forever to get there. It was also another issue, the fact that they could have easily removed 30 mins of running time. I mean, for crying out loud, the poor girl actually did manage to get out off this cave at some point and, yet, they did send her back almost right away so she could save her baby sister which was, narratively speaking, pretty shabby. And yet, I always had a weak spot for minimalistic features and 2/3 of the duration was basically about Brown all alone in some cave with some massive dragon chasing her and this part was actually fairly entertaining. Indeed, she is really charismatic and the fact that she is only 20 years old was also appreciated as she was therefore pretty much the same age of her character instead of being 10 years older which is so often the case. Unfortunately, this movie didn’t have much else to offer. For example, the whole introduction, even if it did look fine, was such a bore and, to make things worse, it did feel rather unnecessary. The whole point was to see a princess fighting a dragon instead of getting rescued but nobody really cared about why she actually got there. Anyway, to conclude, I think I was rather generous with my rating here but I guess it is still worth a look, even if it would be really neat if Millie Bobby Brown would finally make some projects outside Netflix in the future.