Young adult book adaptations into sickly movies have been a thing for a while now, from Twilight to the Host to Divergent to Hunger Games and beyond. Here we see New Zealand have a go at it, and it's the same as the US tends to deliver.
Telling the story of a girl who must face an evil force in order to save her little brother this is a witchy themed thing, and the above description of sickly most definitely applies.
Starring Timothy Spall and Lucy Lawless I'm being a tad generous here, it's a really quite bad film.
You see it's your usual teen angst vs less than normal love interest vs nonsensical convoluted plot hole ridden concept. To make matters worse the two leads are awful! Nicholas Galitzine is your stoic dull mysterious brooding "Hunk" and Erana James is the Kiwi Kristen Stewart and has the acting ability of a brick. The two of them pick one facial expression at the start and continue it for the full duration of the movie.
If you like your schmaltzy teen angst nonsense then you might enjoy this, otherwise steer clear.
The Good:
Spall is oddly on form
Decent soundtrack
The Bad:
So much teen angst!
The two leads have the emotional range of a fart
