A Masterpeice in my Mind

Rating: 10/10 (11 November 2000)

I have seen the Jeff Goldblum/Meg Tilly version of the Sleepy Hollow story and it looks like a high school play compared to this one.Burton's direction and style convinces me that I've been trapped in the story itself.The imagery,the sets,the style and the costuming all convinces me that I were almost thrust back into time.Although,this movie does remind me of Allison Hayes in "The Undead" for the way Ricci's and Lisa Marie's breasts look as if they are about to explode from their bodices.Played against Irving's original story,but then even the Goldblum movie took its own liberties,this movie is a murder mystery wrapped in a ghost movie and a horror movie wrapped in an action film.The stagecoach flight-and-fight had me on the edge of my seat.I don't get the critics bashing Ricci for her accent in this movie; she does play with a limited range but who wants to nit-pick in a movie of this size,scope and magnitude.I give it ten stars!