Winter’s Tale is getting panned by critics, currently at 31 on Metacritic and 15% on Rotten Tomatoes. Honestly I didn’t think it was a bad movie. It was ok for me; not great, but certainly not terrible.
It is yet another based-on-a-novel movie, which there seems to be a rash of lately. I think the book may be pretty good, the backdrop of the movie had some merit. It was a little weird at times, a little too far out there for a traditional romantic flick, but a neat idea anyway. A man falls in love with a woman so much that their love keeps him alive for over a hundred years, until his purpose in life is fulfilled. Some of it was pretty sappy obviously. I do think the story could have been done better. It was written for the screen (and directed by) Akiva Goldsman. He is the writer behind such great movies as I Am Legend and A Beautiful Mind, as well as I, Robot (well, I liked that last one anyway…), and he brings along Russell Crowe and Will Smith from those earlier successes to star in this movie. But he also wrote some terrible ones, including Batman & Robin and the Da Vinci Code movies. Winter’s Tale falls somewhere in the middle.
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