Too brutal, Couldn't handle it

Rating: 5/10 (13 June 2007)

This film was beautifully done. The imagery of the fairy tales was excellent, the special effects blew me away. That accounts for the five stars that I gave it.
The rest of the film--the characters, the plot, and most of all the graphic depictions of violence--in a word, sucked. As an earlier poster said, the images were so upsetting, I could think of nothing else and it made me lose respect for the film. It was a very powerful story, and the Captain's character was so despicable, I could not handle having to deal with him for two hours.
The character I most sympathized with was the mandrake root.