While I will agree that the girl being merely drugged was interesting, the entire film lacked stakes, obstacles and any semblance of subtlety. They moment we were told, in ANOTHER expository yawn-inducing sequence, that the necromancer can raise the dead...yeah, that was to be expected. I had no sympathy for any of the characters, least of all our protagonist (played skillfully by Eddie Redmayne) who was more akin to a reed in a river, swept along by fate with an irritating ability to do absolutely nothing. None of the characters had any redeeming qualities that I could hang on to. Any that did happened to find their way onto the screen (which I'm sure happened purely by coincidence and was brought by the more-than-capable actors) and into the weak storyline was eventually contradicted by ham-fisted direction. I will concede that the themes explored were intriguing but a weak-ass, obvious script was made worse in the hands of a director that has nothing in his arsenal but filmmaking 101. Film can be powerful when purely human themes are treated with respect and vision by filmmakers who understand what makes great films great. Stay the hell away from cliché, give the audience some credit and for f*@#sake, find a script worth shooting!!! Ick ick ick...
Review of Black Death
