A troubled teenage girl goes to a boarding school / treatment facility. There she meets a guy who seems familiar to her. He and a bunch of other strange kids turn out to be fallen angels which will be explained in detail in the classroom.
Comparisons to Twilight are inevitable but there is much less in Fallen than in the first Twilight movie in terms of plot. The dark haired girl and her other worldly hero played by a British actor rescuing her are familiar and it's okay to reuse the formula since it works. Here the difference is it's angels instead of vampires and there is reincarnation theme shown in rather frustrating flashbacks. But things end just when the plot starts to go somewhere.
The trend of spreading out YA fiction movies into three or more movies when the story is so thin to begin is a bad idea. Who can be bothered to wait several years for a romance like this to conclude? I felt like shouting hurry up many times.
The cast is attractive. Addison Timlin as Lucinda is pretty but she doesn't have that special something like K Stew had . She has the appeal of a supporting character rather than a main love interest. Jeremy Irvine plays Grigori. He is quite a likable actor with an impressive bunch of movies before like War Horse and Great Expectations. But here he is made to behave in a rather insipid manner and his passion is unconvincing. Harrison Gilbertson doesn't look as strange as in previous movies though he lacks a dangerous element to be the bad boy - kind of insipid.
There are some good points. The institution is picturesque and Gothic and spooky. The filming is beautifully done with the wings etc.
If this movie doesn't do well in the box office and they don't make a sequel I would have wasted a couple of hours watching this.
Comparisons to Twilight are inevitable but there is much less in Fallen than in the first Twilight movie in terms of plot. The dark haired girl and her other worldly hero played by a British actor rescuing her are familiar and it's okay to reuse the formula since it works. Here the difference is it's angels instead of vampires and there is reincarnation theme shown in rather frustrating flashbacks. But things end just when the plot starts to go somewhere.
The trend of spreading out YA fiction movies into three or more movies when the story is so thin to begin is a bad idea. Who can be bothered to wait several years for a romance like this to conclude? I felt like shouting hurry up many times.
The cast is attractive. Addison Timlin as Lucinda is pretty but she doesn't have that special something like K Stew had . She has the appeal of a supporting character rather than a main love interest. Jeremy Irvine plays Grigori. He is quite a likable actor with an impressive bunch of movies before like War Horse and Great Expectations. But here he is made to behave in a rather insipid manner and his passion is unconvincing. Harrison Gilbertson doesn't look as strange as in previous movies though he lacks a dangerous element to be the bad boy - kind of insipid.
There are some good points. The institution is picturesque and Gothic and spooky. The filming is beautifully done with the wings etc.
If this movie doesn't do well in the box office and they don't make a sequel I would have wasted a couple of hours watching this.