Pan Labyrinth Review

Rating: 2/10 (20 December 2006)

I went to see this film after noticing the high rating it has been given on IMDb and after reading a few reviews. I was sorely disappointed. The reviews (ones on this site) led me to believe that it would be brilliant. I think i must have watched the wrong film because I found nothing of the sort. It was boring and had no plot. Also, they had tried to paste together two completely different types of film with sleep-inducing consequences. The film contains a small amount of violence which, given its graphical nature, I would rather have done without. How this film managed not to get an 18 classification based on that I don't know. I kept wondering if the film was leading somewhere but it never did. It yields a couple of small parts that are quite good (thats why I gave it a 2) but a minute or two later we get back to boredom. The only reason I wrote this review is that I find it unfathomable how it averaged an 8.3 rating. Stay home because there's nothing good about this film. Even the usher was keeling over.