An average movie

Honestly, I never really understood what happened with this franchise. I mean, sure, every year, ever since the success of ‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy and the Harry Potter franchise, you have some high profile fantasy book adaptations and many flop terribly but, usually, when the first movie is very successful, they just keep releasing the sequels until the cow has been milked dry. Well, this franchise is the exception as while this installment was a huge box-office success, at the same level of the most successful franchises in the same genre, the sequels didn’t get much love and you wonder if they will ever release a 4th installment. One theory is that they took too much time to release the first sequel but 3 years seemed rather reasonable. Anyway, coming back to our main feature, I remember it very well, I saw it in the theater when it was released with my wife and my step-kids and I thought it was quite decent. Indeed, it looked quite gorgeous and it was fairly entertaining. The only major flaw, in my opinion, is that the flow was seriously off. Indeed, the first half was very slow which wasn’t necessarily an issue since you got then the chance to get into this fantastic world and discover it with the characters. But then, the 2nd half was really fast, there were some many scenes and things happening at once, it was rather hard to digest. To conclude, it is far from being an amazing flick but I think it is still worth a look though, especially if you like the genre.

6/10