Not what I expected (some spoilers!!!)

Rating: 7/10 (5 March 2000)

After all, it's very difficult to comment on this movie.
At first I have to say that the atmosphere was great, with this I mean the music, the fantastic set, the costumes and so on. The actors were great, too, especially Mr. Depp and Christina Ricci. But, unfortunately, there are many bad things that can be said about the movie. The first bad thing is the story. It might be true that everyone in the United States knows the story, but we here in Germany or even Western Europe don't know it. That's why I personally had problems with following the story: Who murdered who, the scenes in which Crane explains this are much too short, while the action scenes, especially those at the end, are much too long. SPOILER! And I really think that the idea that the stepmother controls the hessian horseman to kill this other family is a bit weird. The worst thing about the movie is, that it can't be put in any genre. This might be good sometimes, but here it isn't. I wasn't scared while watching the movie, because there were to many funny scenes. And it wasn't really a Whodunit, as i expected it to be (I didn't know the story, as told above). well, after all, some scenes were really great, SPOILER! for example when Crane finds his mother, so after all I give this movie 7 / 10 points.