The Golden Compass is a film that takes you into a new world where every human being’s soul is shaped like an animal and walks, flies, swims, struts, etc beside. The story depicts a young orphan (Lyra) with unusual foresight aided by this Golden Compass who must go through a series of trials to save her friend, only to discover that there is much more to this rescue mission.
The stars of the movie include such big names as Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, and Eva Green, and introducing a new young star in Dakota Blue Richards. This group of actors have brought Philip Pullman’s first of three books (His Dark Materials) to life.
This movie has outstanding visual effects and demonstrates the true qualities that computer technology has to offer. The pictures come right from the book. The only bad part is for book lovers who read the book then see the movie!
As a book lover myself, I had actually seen the movie and couldn’t wait for the sequals to know what happens and rushed out to buy the books. Only to find out that the movie is in complete disaray from the book. The sequence of the scenes in the book doesn’t represent the sequence of events in the book. I’m sure the writers have a good reason for this if not to juice up the second part of this trilogy since in the second book there is far less action than in the first and third books.
Overall this movie is very entertaining and grabbed my attention! I encourage everybody to rent it and even buy it…it is a good purchase. The movie comes out on DVD April 30th,2008.
This movie receives 4 popcorns out of a possible 5!
