Film Review - Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)

Jack the Giant Slayer is directed by Bryan Singer and is based off the classic "Jack and the Beanstalk" nursery rhyme, this version has Jack (Nicholas Hoult) as a simple farm boy who works the land but up in the skies lie a race of giants, giants who develop a hunger for the humans below.

Where does one begin with this film, well where to start would simply be that the film is simply a complete and utter bore fest from start to finish, the film opens with a narrated thing about the land of the giants and how they invaded and how the last alliance banded together to fight them off, okay the last part didn't happen but it was something similar and it's from there the rot sets in as you just sit there thinking "Been there, done that."

That feeling also extends to the film's characters, Hoult as Jack is an uncharismatic, uninteresting and deadly dull bore in the role and all he does is mumble his line and grin like a little child and its totally uninteresting, not to mention the fact that the character he plays come across as a cardboard clone of Luke Skywalker from Star Wars but without the boyish charm Mark Hamill brought to the role, Eleanor Tomlinson actually comes across as being the best part of the film and has a nice charming quality to her despite getting virtually nothing to do in her role and playing a cardboard clone of Princess Jasmine from Aladdin.

But the biggest waste of all is that of Ewan McGregor, Ian McShane and Stanley Tucci, all three are good actors and have been good on their own in the past but again all they're given is nothing to do, McGregor the brave knight, McShane the old king and Tucci well he seems to playing a cardboard clone of Jafar from Aladdin, the film's special effects work and battle sequences play more like a 2nd rate video game and the use of "Cloister" for the name of the kingdom just made me very angry and it's an insult to the Cat people who worship him and needless to say, they'd be considering legal action if any of them ever saw this film.

As to whether you should see this movie, well you should not, it's boring, the characters are cardboard clones, the action is dull and the story is routine, I honestly thought Bryan Singer was better this, maybe I was wrong, .5 out of 5.