Highly atmospheric

Rating: 9/10 (19 January 2000)

...then again, atmosphere itself doesn't make a great film - but together with some fantastic set designs, unintrusive (but incredibly effective) music by Danny Elfman, Christopher Walken being as cool as usual, although the amount of time he's on screen is considerably smaller than we had been led to believe by all the publicity, Christina Ricci's eyes.......er....sorry, getting carried away. Anyway - I thoroughly enjoyed this film, and will definitely try and see it again, even if it's just to fathom out precisely what accent Johnny Depp is supposed to have.