The Golden Compass Blu-ray is a blatant attempt to
The Golden Compass Blu-ray is a blatant attempt to duplicate the success of the Harry Potter franchise. The only thing missing is richly imagined characters, a comprehensible story line, good acting, and satisfying special effects. An entertaining start for this new series. A crushing disappointment for fans and a scuppered opportunity for a cinematic event. That the first book has been so mishandled doesn’t bode well for the already greenlit more complicated ones to come. With its rushed, jargon-pumped exposition, surplus of quarter-baked characters, stray narrative strands and generously dropped hints of things possibly to come, The Golden Compass is a movie that wears its franchise ambitions on its sleeve. Suggesting at once Mrs. Coulters devotion to her Magisterial mission, her fears of soulful and sensual embodiment, and yes, her own split self, her slap-and-hug of her damon all but stops the films action. the film possesses few attributes designed to draw in and hold the interest of neophytes.