A good movie

Before it was released, there was a pretty good buzz but it wasn’t really successful after all. Basically, following the success of 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'Harry Potter', they adapted as many fantasy books as possible and most of those pretty much crashed and burned at the box-office and this flick was one of them. Honestly, I thought it was actually fairly entertaining with a very good performance by Jim Carrey. Eventually, I saw it again and, this time, I was able to spot what went wrong, at least, according to me. Above all, they messed up the tone. Indeed, with this material, it should have been a really dark and gloomy tale but, in order to reach a wider audience, they toned down the whole thing. So, it was never really dark and never really funny either. Furthermore, it looked pretty impressive but also really fake (apparently, the whole thing was shoot on soundstages with green screens) and, as a result, you never feel that there was anything at stake. Apparently, they were supposed to make more movies (there are 13 books so that should have been enough material) but it seems that they eventually dropped the whole thing so we won't see Count Olaf and the Baudelaire siblings for anytime soon. To conclude, even though my rating might be generous, I still think it was a decent flick and I think it is worth a look.

7/10