Reviews for this film from our members:
- Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Steve Biodrowski @ Cinefantastique Online
- Excerpt: There’s no magic in this beanstalk.
- Luke Bonanno @ DVDizzy.com
- Excerpt: While it never dips beneath watchable and remains polished for all but its prologue, Jack the Giant Slayer is too ordinary and forgettable for all the time and money spent on it.
- Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
- Excerpt: Neither musty enough to seem like a charming throwback nor complex enough to work well as a reimaginging.
- Bob Cashill @ Popdose.com
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Fee Fie Ho-Hum.
- Jim Dixon @ Examiner.com
- Excerpt: “Jack the Giant Slayer” is an entertaining, high energy romp, which oddly doesn’t seem to have an original thought in it.
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: [I]t’s a very good thing the giants are as effectively villainous as they are; otherwise, the movie, for the most part, would be a predictable, uninspired affair.
- Kate Erbland @ MSN Movies
- Takis Garis @ www.moviesltd.gr [Greek]
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: Family friendly yet derivative – and too scary for young children
- Vadym Grygoriev @ kinoblog.com [Ukrainian]
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: Keeps trying to fly off into potentially fascinating directions and then getting yanked back into a mushy mediocrity…
- Benjamin Kramer @ The Voracious Filmgoer
- Glenn Lovell @ CinemaDope.com
- Excerpt: Most of ‘Jack’ unfolds like a bad roadshow production of The Mouse That Roared … In Gargantua, however, the fantasy loosens up and for a wee bit feels like LOTR as restaged by Monty Python.
- Piers Marchant @ Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
- Excerpt: Bryan Singer’s latest action thriller proves itself capable of both action and thrills.
- Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: It’s not perfect, but Jack the Giant Slayer delivers some primo giant-y goodness, which I found irresistible.
- Jason McKiernan @ Next Projection
- Excerpt: …watching the finished product, with its transparently fake landscapes and B-level effects and harsh green screen over-lighting, has the effect of watching a well-meaning but horribly produced high school play.
- Brent McKnight @ Beyond Hollywood
- [New – 9/19] | Frank Ochieng @ SFcrowsnest
- Excerpt: As a so-called larger-than-life puffy fantasy, poor Jack does not slay giants so much as he tackles the elements of midget-sized mediocrity.
- R. Kurt Osenlund @ Slant Magazine
- Jamie S. Rich @ DVD Talk
- Excerpt: While Jack the Giant Slayer, the latest from X-Men and Usual Suspects-director Bryan Singer, doesn’t exactly turn into the cinematic equivalent of a multi-car pile-up, it does suffer from trying too hard to be centrist, to maintain a position between two different things, and ends up not being as good as it should be for it.
- Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: A rousing adventure; exciting, adventurous and just plain fun.
- Marcio Sallem @ Em Cartaz [Portuguese]
- Amir Siregar @ Flick Magazine [Indonesian]
- Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: A surprisingly deft, enjoyable variation on the old tale.
- Pete Vonder Haar @ Houston Press
- Andrew Wyatt @ Gateway Cinephiles
- Excerpt: Like a roller coaster that one has ridden a dozen times, Jack the Giant Slayer offers a soothing kind of excitement, but no genuine surprises or risk.
