Terrific cinematography, what you can see of it anyay, which isn't much. My wife started watching this before I did & she told me it was really a dark movie, so I assumed she meant the plot & mood. Turned out that even wathing it in a dark room on a top of the line 65" flat screen, it's hard to see the characters most of the time. The candles, oil lamps and fireplaces look nice, though.
Turns out not much missed as the plot/story characterizations are prepostrously abysmal. Normal dependable actors like Toby Jones, Timothy Spall, even Robert Duvall, deliver high school huff-and-puff pseudo-victorian impersonations. Harry Melling is a cartoonish EA Poe. I (we) didn't even like Christian Bale in this one. Most over-the-top of all was Gillian Anderson who seemed to be auditioning for Great Expectations.
The costumes were very nice.
Turns out not much missed as the plot/story characterizations are prepostrously abysmal. Normal dependable actors like Toby Jones, Timothy Spall, even Robert Duvall, deliver high school huff-and-puff pseudo-victorian impersonations. Harry Melling is a cartoonish EA Poe. I (we) didn't even like Christian Bale in this one. Most over-the-top of all was Gillian Anderson who seemed to be auditioning for Great Expectations.
The costumes were very nice.