Movie Review: Lady in the Water - Page 3

One of Lady in the Water’s many, many core problems is the fact that it just assumes we’ll buy into this mythology that it’s created from the beginning onwards. The problem is it rushes into it within the first ten minutes, running with the mystical storyline but never allowing us any time to start believing in it ourselves. If it had done exactly that maybe we could forgive some of its ridiculous elements that we come across later on. However seeing that it’s more interested in doing exactly what it wants to do and less interested in engaging its audience the result is one dreadful motion picture.

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I am a film critic and blogger, and have been so for almost three years now, going from starting my own movie review website, Movie World (which is still running), and then moving on to writing for various movie blogs.

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  • 1 - Derek Fleek

    Jul 16, 2008 at 8:23 pm

    Couldn't agree more.

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