Tim Burton's Finest Film . . . Ever!!!

Rating: 10/10 (19 November 1999)

Burton created one of the best mysteries I've seen in years. His creative adaptations to Irving's original story only bolster an already engaging storyline. Depp marvelously maintains Ichabod's nerdy but endearing personality while representing a turn-of-the-century detective instead of a schoolteacher as in Irving's original. Also, the peripheral characters added great chemistry and dynamics to the movie instead of subtracting from it. The Masbeth son was a perfect partnering sleuth to Crane's often frail portrayal of courage and fortitude.
If ample amounts of blood and Freudian symbolism do not offend you, "Sleepy Hollow" definitely entertains with a remarkably creative display of balance between both the power and sometimes impotent use of reason to uncover and explain truth. And who can really resist a movie with Christopher Walken playing "the bad guy."