Sleepy Hollow

Reviewed by: Angel-Five

December 3, 1999

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In other news: I saw Sleepy Hollow finally.

God almighty, did that suck. Facking awful.

It could have been a good movie, but wasn't at all. Predictable, trite, full of occurences (like a detonating windmill) acts (like Depp suddenly learning how to fight) and deductions (like Depp guessing what was really happening and how) that just didn't seem possible. And although I'm a really big Depp fan, and he wasn't bad, his performance was at times a little too much influenced by the execrable Tim Burton for me to really heartily endorse it.

The Horseman. The Horseman was cool. But if you've avoided the movie this far, I advise you to continue doing so. I wouldn't even rent it. A bad-assed Horseman, some nice cleavage, a few good special effects, a few nice shots, and a so-so Depp to the positive -- a lot of gratuitous pitches to the Wicca crowd, a cheesy and trite plot full of stock characters and predictable yet unbelievable actions, large gaps in the logic, a lousy ending, and Burton's typical distracting and self-indulgent hand in events to the negative.

 

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