Johnny Depp & Tim Burton, both, at their very BEST !

Rating: 10/10 (1 June 2000)

Thrilled from start to finish, I can certainly understand the rave reviews throughout much of Europe for the recently reinterpreted (and slightly renamed) "Sleepy Hollow: The legend of the headless horseman" by Tim Burton and now featuring three-time collaborator "par excellence" Johnny Depp who - as I have said before - is the most under-rated actor of his generation in Hollywood. Between this and the recent "Ninth Gate", I find myself at odds as to which is Depp's very best performance, but viewers will find he just keeps getting better and better with time. How he continually escapes notice at awards time continues to amaze and cause no small amount of chagrin. The film is top-notch, I don't care what language you see it in, JUST GO SEE IT. Rating 5 stars (of five !), and with greatest pleasure. (Honourable mention to British veterain Michael Gambon and a very well-matched Christina Ricci, too!)