Not one of Johnny Depp's better works

Rating: 2/10 (21 September 2014)

Don't get me wrong, Johnny Depp was amazing in Edward Scissorhands. Sleepy Hollow however was certainly not his best acting job, nor was it a very good movie. I'll likely get a lot of 'unhelpful' votes on this review, but here's my opinion: Basically it follows the classic story of schoolteacher Ichabod Crane, but in this version directed by Tim Burton he's a police officer sent out to the small town of Sleepy Hollow to investigate murders done by a mysterious headless phantom. He falls for Katrina, who is played by the actress who was Wednesday in The Addams Family movies.
Ichabod Crane, throughout the film, is hard to take seriously at the best of times. He is kind of a wimp and all through the movie I just kept thinking, "okay, the fainting thing is a little old now!" With his Gothic look, nearly inaudible voice (I had to keep adjusting the sound on my television to hear him) and strange gadgets, it's extremely hard to take the movie seriously at all. The film was incredibly boring; the scenery was just a bunch of trees and 1800's-style houses, nothing to make it stand out. Aside from Christina Ricci, the acting was pretty bad. The soundtrack was boring and unmemorable.
Johnny Depp is definitely one of the best actors I've seen. The problem is, he's in nearly every Tim Burton film, and he always looks about the same, sounds the same, and it's hard to think of his roles as each a separate character in each film.
I wouldn't recommend Sleepy Hollow unless you're a Johnny Depp fan. If you want to see better Tim Burton films, try Batman (1989), Edward Scissorhands (1989) or Beetlejuice (1988).