Film Reviews by Old Git

I'm a very keen movie watcher who has been frustrated in the last few year by the ever increasing volume of derivative movies and comic book stories to the detriment of quality.

For me at least this is an outstanding movie.

I will qualify this by adding that at two and a half hours is also very long and slow so some people may prefer to watch it in its two natural parts.

The story line is well written and the film very well produced and directed by Del Toro and co with haunting art deco sets and dark , brooding colours.

The acting from the principals and supporting cast is also superb.

A must see.

So production of movies has doubled on the last twenty years and the film industry has been taken over in part by Amazon.

It’s great to see original and creative movies (and there are some like The OnLy Living Boy in New York, I care a lot, uncle frank and My Spy) but with this and Palm Springs one has to ask how many time loop movies do I really want to see?