lmgannon2

I took a chance on this only because of the high rating and halfway through the first season it became clear to me that many of these ratings/reviews must be bogus. This mess is a combination of Twilight, Harry Potter, Vampire Diaries, Highlander and more. Every trope in this genre is employed, and not well. Though much of the acting is excellent, especially the side characters, the leading lady, Teresa Palmer, was an awful choice for this role. She is immature and stilted throughout and manages to ruin scenes with other (better) actors, making them look bad as well. The storyline is all over the place, really good in parts, cringeworthy in others. At times it's like a teen drama, other times it draws you in with some spectacular scenes. I'm at the end of season 2 and can only hope it improves, it can't get any worse.

Since this is a new-ish movie I was very pleasantly surprised at how good it is. Of course, the great Emma Thompson being involved not only as a writer but in the movie as well probably played a large part, but the two leads, Emilia Clarke and Henry Golding were spot on. I truly don't understand the overall low ratings, I would expect this to be 7.5-8 here on IMDb. Maybe the mystical aspect was over the top for a lot of people? Maybe a lot of people don't like George Michael's music which was played throughout the movie? I don't know but I would recommend this over many of the mundane, mediocre movies offered this season.