In love with this movie!

Rating: 10/10 (22 December 2015)

This movie is set in 1930 Paris and is about a boy named Hugo. He lives in the walls of a train station and fixes the clocks here. Hugo gets sucked in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton, which he wants to fix, but in order to do so he needs to find a special key.
I really enjoyed this movie and I found myself falling in love with it as I was watching. First of all, the performances are great, especially the ones from Ben Kingsley and Asa Butterfield. This movie is beautifully shot; the beginning scene alone is spectacular and from that moment on you watch a beautiful depiction of 1930 Paris. It's of course very well directed by the awesome Martin Scorsese, who did a fantastic job translating the book to a movie screen (yes, this was based on a book!). The score also is beautiful and really suits the movie.
Secondly, I really enjoyed the story of this movie. It is a very engaging one and you are really sucked into this story and I found myself really caring for different characters in this movie. There is a mystery in this movie and watching this mystery slowly get more and more revealed is engaging, interesting, exciting and fun. I won't spoil it, but the life story of one character in this movie was so interesting that after the movie I looked up this person to find out more about his life. What I also like in this movie, was the little throwback or history lesson as one could name it about old movies, as if it was a love letter from Scorsese to these older movies.
My only complaint would be that I didn't really cared about some of the minor characters in the movie, but that is me just nitpicking. Besides that, to summarize, I really loved this movie and everything about it: the performances, the story, the cinematography and so on. I would highly recommend you checking out this movie and be as surprised as I was.