Lots of Eye Candy...No Soul

Rating: 5/10 (23 December 1999)

Yes, this movie was visually really good. That's about it, though. It was pretty bad, which is unfortunate because I like Tim Burton a whole lot. So, what was it that made this so bad? First, I was expecting some campy humor that's usually in Burton's films. There really wasn't any unless Johnny Depp fainting after every decapitation is funny. Also, it had this story that kept getting more complicated and more stupid the longer it went along. It was supposed to be about the head (no pun intended) of some family getting rich off somebody's will or something. I don't know, I just wanted to see the horesman some more after a while. The plot just lost me. But the biggest flaw perhaps, was that we the audience don't ever care about any of these characters. There was no emotion like that we've seen in the better Burton films. So let me sum up, cold and unfeeling, very violent, not funny, and a confusing story. We do get to see some purely Burton creations though like Johnny Depp's cool forensic toys and torture chamber flashback.