Complete disaster

Rating: 1/10 (14 April 2007)

I really like fantasy movies (especially LOTR), and saw this movie because of good reviews both on IMDb and elsewhere. I expected anything but this. It was a total bore from first two minutes onwards.
1. The script is so bad that you almost cannot believe that something so poorly written ever made to screen. The story - an adolescent girl trying to escape into her childish imagination in the midst of partisan struggle against Spanish fascists - was simple as a piece of firewood. Dialogue was plain and banal.
2. Characters were so cliché and their acting so illogical that it literally hurt to watch.
3. Throughout the film there were only two fantasy scenes, the rest was imagination of a little girl, that no one else can see. There is more fantasy in any Jim Carrey comedy than there was here.
4. However, everything was shot with very realistic horror and cruelty, blood and gore. I cannot imagine showing this to children.
My advice - avoid this disaster at all costs.