Crazy, Gratuitous Violence

Rating: 6/10 (11 May 2014)

I am being a little generous by giving this move 6 out of 10. An otherwise perfectly respectable performance by Jonny Depp is spoiled by.., everybody's head getting chopped off. All through the movie, one-by-one, all the townspeople have their heads chopped off. Maybe they know why it's happening, but the people watching the movie don't. Why should we want to see decapitation after meaningless decapitation? What, precisely, is "...a Hessian", anyway, and what has it got to do with the people of the town? Good literature has rich symbolism. What does a headless horseman mean, symbolically? I'll admit to not having read the book, but this movie is just more inane, gratuitous violence. I found the story neither rich nor comprehensible.