Top 250? You're kidding me.

Rating: 1/10 (29 December 2007)

never before have I actually spent the time to write out a formal film review for this site, but the miserable experience I've spent in the theater have driven me to do so.
maybe you'll like Sweeney Todd, maybe you like Broadway (even bad Broadway), maybe you're a die hard Tim Burton fan (as I know thousands of you exist), maybe you just like blood in all shades, shapes and forms or maybe you just have a special reserve for barbers. then go! by all means go see Sweeney!
BUT
if you are expecting a movie rated in the top 250 list of all time (oh no, no no, not even that, at present it's exactly #128) then stay away! here, I'll spoil it for you, cover your eyes if you've been waiting in anticipation for this release. okay, so we have a barber (dear ole' johnny) and he's rather sore about a raped wife and stolen daughter so what do you do? oh you kill people! while belting out mundane and forgettable ballads of some woman named Joanna. yeah we also have a trite and pathetic sub plot of johnny's daughter and this sulky-lipped lad wanting to run away together, not to mention some other characters swimming in the whole neck slitting mess.
now understand I'm being quite critical, it's because I expected a lot more from the top 250 film list. Come on people, seriously. if you like Tim Burton, you'll be, well ... appeased. it's filled with enough monochromatic wannnabe caligariesque sets and horror stricken hallow characters just wallowing in their misery. I've seen it before, We've all seen it before. The red red blood splattered against the cool cool dusty dilapidated palette, contrast! oh how original! please johnny sing your sorrows away! (because we all know you have such a great voice)
alright alright I'm stopping this. I am being unfair. bottom line go watch some Fellini, Bergman, Truffaut, Godard, Lang, anyone!
don't don't waste over two hours in this mess, I have already done it for you