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Nov 08, 2019biffblack rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
So much worse than I ever could have imagined. Everything about this tepid production shrieks of fakery & dishonesty. The script is.... AWFUL!!! So bad, so phony, so mechanical, and so devoid of any recognizable life. Atrocious "acting" by the vacuous Amanda Seyfried in the leading role doesn't help. When her sister gets mauled by the big bad wolf and dies, Amanda's supposed to be grief-stricken, yet she has such a puny emotional range she seems more like a sorority girl in need of Pepto-Bismol. Director Catherine Hardwicke made a couple of good films before this -- naturalistic dramas Thirteen and Lords of Dogtown. But there's nothing she can do with this dead air bubble. The young men here all seem like creatures from an Abercrombie & Fitch photo shoot. Even the great Julie Christie -- her face airbrushed into fictitious youthfulness and her trademark Brit accent scrubbed away -- comes through with a bad performance. Any movie that won't let Christie create a character -- or even be Christie -- should never have been made. The audience for this pic appears to be un-discerning 'tween girls who will hate this pic as soon as they can discern.