This movie is as lifeless as the vampire in it. I've got to say Burton has become a parody of himself over the years, as he continues to make live action movies that are as stiff as the claymation figures in his other (highly better) cartoon movies.
I don't even know where to begin on how terrible this movie is. Even Depp over the years since Captain Jack Sparrow has been doing every movie he's been in as if it Jack Sparrow was acting in that movie, thus he's become a parody unto himself also, which is I guess why him and Burton keep making movies together. What I continue to find funny about Burton is that his cartoon movies have so much more passion in them than his live action movies. They also have more life, which is ironic considering there are more live actors in the live action movies than his cartoons.
The screenplay for this movie is just flat out terrible it's all over the place narrative wise as it refuses to define a main character and then will go long stretches where the main character, or at least who I thought was the main character, isn't even on screen driving the storyline. It’s a love story where the two love interests have little screen time together. Which begs the question: how are we to believe their love if we never see them together and when we do it’s with clunky dialogue straight from the George Lucas book of puppy love he so perfected in Attack of Clones? I also find it funny how much sympathy I had for the villain of this story over the main character played by Depp. His character kills at least 12 innocent people, where as the villain actually helped the town she was in and made it a thriving industrial town and she genuinely seemed to care when she found out some of her employees got killed by Depp’s character. And I’m supposed to root against her? I found myself rooting for her instead of the lazy, lay about family of Depp’s character. Who seemed more like the politicians we have in Washington than the independent, villain business owner who actually was a hard worker and wasn’t just living off the silver spoon in her mouth. I'm sorry but it felt like an all out attack on capitalism and and independent business owners world wide, with the lay about politicians leeching from everyone else propped up as heroes. I don't know any world where politicians are the heroes. Here's rooting for the witch, which Eva Green totally vamped out.
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