The Raven (2012)
Country: US/SP/HUN/SER
Technical: col/2.35:1 110m
Director: James McTeigue
Cast: John Cusack, Luke Evans, Alice Eve, Brendan Gleeson, Kevin McNally
Synopsis:
In 1849 Baltimore Edgar Allan Poe is penniless, creatively dried up and about as far from marrying the woman he loves as he could get. Then, overnight, his situation changes, though not in a way he could have wanted, as a series of grisly murders appear to ape his writings.
Review:
A chance to enact some Poe-imagined torments, and even revive some of his verses, as Evans's Holmesian police inspector and Cusack's wittily vitriolic Poe find themselves perpetually one step behind the pace of their obsessive antagonist. Like the Ritchie Holmes films, it is a lot more style than substance, some of it pretty unpleasant, but tense enough and with the courage not to renege on its opening premise.
Country: US/SP/HUN/SER
Technical: col/2.35:1 110m
Director: James McTeigue
Cast: John Cusack, Luke Evans, Alice Eve, Brendan Gleeson, Kevin McNally
Synopsis:
In 1849 Baltimore Edgar Allan Poe is penniless, creatively dried up and about as far from marrying the woman he loves as he could get. Then, overnight, his situation changes, though not in a way he could have wanted, as a series of grisly murders appear to ape his writings.
Review:
A chance to enact some Poe-imagined torments, and even revive some of his verses, as Evans's Holmesian police inspector and Cusack's wittily vitriolic Poe find themselves perpetually one step behind the pace of their obsessive antagonist. Like the Ritchie Holmes films, it is a lot more style than substance, some of it pretty unpleasant, but tense enough and with the courage not to renege on its opening premise.
Country: US/SP/HUN/SER
Technical: col/2.35:1 110m
Director: James McTeigue
Cast: John Cusack, Luke Evans, Alice Eve, Brendan Gleeson, Kevin McNally
Synopsis:
In 1849 Baltimore Edgar Allan Poe is penniless, creatively dried up and about as far from marrying the woman he loves as he could get. Then, overnight, his situation changes, though not in a way he could have wanted, as a series of grisly murders appear to ape his writings.
Review:
A chance to enact some Poe-imagined torments, and even revive some of his verses, as Evans's Holmesian police inspector and Cusack's wittily vitriolic Poe find themselves perpetually one step behind the pace of their obsessive antagonist. Like the Ritchie Holmes films, it is a lot more style than substance, some of it pretty unpleasant, but tense enough and with the courage not to renege on its opening premise.