Red Riding Hood Movie Download

3 / 10

A sham
Okay, so somebody had the great idea of turning the classic Red Riding Hood fairytale into a movie squarely aimed at the TWILIGHT crowd (the two movies even share a director). The resultant mess is a film that focuses on soppy romance and safe, PG-13 rated thrills and spills as the inhabitants of a medieval village find themselves at the mercy of a vicious werewolf.

Dearie me, this is woeful indeed and a film that just doesn’t gel. It’s apparent that the scriptwriter really struggled at turning a one-page tale into a feature-length screenplay; the actual Red Riding Hood story doesn’t appear until twenty minutes before the end and when it does it feels like the whole preceding running time is entirely superfluous.

It doesn’t help that the characters are twee and one-dimensional and that the film plays safe by Hollywood standards throughout. It’s entirely sanitised, never too scary or nasty, instead trying to please everyone and pleasing nobody in the process. By the time the CGI werewolf shows up I was entirely bored, and the whole whodunit aspect of the narrative is a complete non-starter.

Cast-wise, the simpering Amanda Seyfried is fairly irritating in a goody-two-shoes performance (just like MAMMA MIA!), and Shiloh Fernandez’s love interest is lacking. Max Irons gives an entirely wooden performance and reveals that he’s inherited none of his father’s talent, and veteran performers like Virginia Madsen and Julie Christie are relegated to nothing roles. The only one I liked was Luke Haas, and he’s barely in it. At least Gary Oldman gets into the spirit of the thing, with flashes of his glory psycho days at times. Anyway, as expected, this is a mess and a film that only teenage girls are sure to enjoy.Read More