The Golden Compass

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.

[Highly rated reviewer]

A BIG DISAPPOINTMENT

Having read the books and thoroughly enjoyed them I was looking forward to watching the Golden Compass. However I was extremely disappointed. The film never really develops any of the central themes of the trilogy (notably the central theme of religion), it does not develop any of the characters to a sufficient level, and it does not capture the beauty of the relationship between a human and its daemon. Instead from the start the film races through the different events in the book, and in doing so loses all of its magic.

This film may be enjoyed by young children because of the visual effects... but for older viewers it is a disappointment all round.

To sum up the book has been converted into nothing more than a poor fantasy film!