Film Review – Jack the Giant Slayer

The fairy tale “Jack and the Beanstalk” gets an aggressive update in
“Jack the Giant Slayer,” a vividly imagined fantasy film with an
unexpected appetite for destruction. Director Bryan Singer can’t lift
the feature off its feet, yet his vision for towering threat and lands
far, far away is virile enough to supply a hearty adventure, sold with
unusual visual effects and a welcomingly blunt attitude when it comes to
the violence of men and monster. It’s an impressively large-scale
endeavor, only lacking a sharp wit and a blistering sense of urgency
that could carry it to greater heights of grandiose entertainment. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com