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The Golden Compass Details

2007 Certificate PG
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In a parallel universe, young Lyra Belacqua journeys to the far North to save her best friend and other kidnapped children from terrible experiments by a mysterious organization. Read more

Starring Dakota Blue Richards, Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Eva Green
Director Chris Weitz
Genres Action/Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi/Fantasy

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The Golden Compass

In a parallel universe, young Lyra Belacqua journeys to the far North to save her best friend and other kidnapped children from terrible experiments by a mysterious organization.

Starring Dakota Blue Richards, Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Sam Elliott, Ian McKellen, Ian McShane
Director Chris Weitz
Studio ENTERTAINMENT IN VIDEO
Run time DVD: 1 hr 53 mins
Blu-ray: 1 hr 53 mins
Certificate Certificate PG
Collections New releases
Genres Action/Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Language DVD: English
Blu-ray: English
Released DVD: 28 Apr 2008
Blu-ray: 02 Nov 2009
Production year: 2007
Format DVD

The Golden Compass (2007)

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  • 2 stars out of

    Bland, bloodless and bereft of magic, New Lines corporate sanitisation of Philip Pullmans exciting, provocative... read more on Time Out

    • Nigel Floyd, 
    • Time Out
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  • 166 out of 179 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 1 star

    Don't waste time and money

    The movie is a let down on all the levels. Excruciatingly boring, I was fighting desire to sleep, very slow and the plot doesn't make any sense.

    And the worst of it, noone ever tells you that the movie is not completed, so that you would have to come again to pay again to see the end of this nonsense. After 2 hours of boredom they don't even tell you what the 'dust' is.

    What a joke! Movie makers don't have any respect for audience any more. Anything would do to get money.

      • A customer from London
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  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 3 stars

    Golden Compass

    I have read the book but did not enjoy it as much as my partner did. I thought the cinematography of this film and the special effects were very good. I am not sure how purists would feel it compares to the book but for me it was an enjoyable way to spend a couple of hours. I thought Nicole Kidman was good, although it is perturbing how little she moves her face. This is obviously the first in three and so the ending is unresolved, leading the way for the next installment. Not just a kiddies film, this was a good yarn.

      • A customer from London
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    We Own the Night

    The Golden Compass stays at #1

    • 19 Dec 2007

    Fantasy epic The Golden Compass has stayed at the top of the UK box office chart for another week, suggesting that the film might be just as popular as the books on which it is based. Starring Daniel Craig and Nicole Kidman, The Golden Compass has now taken more than £12.2 million in ticket sales, according to AC Nielsen. It kept new entries Enchanted and Bee Movie from the top spot, in addition to pushing Fred Claus into fourth place. Another two new entries - Mr Magorium's Wonder... Read more

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