Beautiful film

Rating: 7/10 (3 April 2000)

This is one of the most amazingly beautiful films I have ever seen. The costumes, the cinematography, the production design, the two leads (Depp and Ricci) et cetera. It is worth it to watch this film just to experience the dark beauty of it. However, the film is quite good in its own right. It's a nice mix of horror and beheadings and a little comedy as well. Depp is brilliant as Ichabod Crane -- he does a lot of swooning while trying to remain calm. But hey, if a headless Christopher Walken on a black horse was coming after you set to separate your head from your body with a long sword, wouldn't you swoon at least once as well? :-) "Sleepy Hollow" definitely got that dark Tim Burton-feel over it, while it is not as strange as some of his other films, and there's some comic relief as well and thank god for that because otherwise all those beheadings would have been insufferable. (7/10)