Uneven direction, bad casting, and terrible writing plague the period musical film “Les Miserables.” Director Tom Hooper (“The King’s Speech” (2010) and his screenwriting team based the movie on the stage play of the same name, so the roots of the problems in the film lie with the play. There are some good songs, and some not so good. The film has good performers, like Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway (who won the Oscar for Best Actress), and absolutely terrible actors like Russell Crowe.
The story is set in the early 19th Century in France, adapted from the 1862 novel by Victor Hugo, and, quite frankly, is not very interesting. Hooper and screenwriters William Nicholson, Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schonberg, and Herbert Kretzmer have created a film that has a confusing plot, virtually no spoken dialogue, and uneven musical numbers.
The cast includes Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway, Russell Crowe, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne, Helena Bonham Carter, Sacha Baron Cohen, Samantha Barks, Aaron Tviet, and Daniel Huttlestone. Besides Hathaway, the movie won two other Academy Awards for Best Sound Mixing and Best Makeup and Hairstyling, out of eight nominations. It is a surprise that the unwatchable “Les Miserables” was a success at the box office for Universal Pictures, because it is a miserable motion picture!
Les Miserables (2012)
cinema
My Review
Uneven direction, bad casting, and terrible writing plague the period musical film “Les Miserables.” Director Tom Hooper (“The King’s Speech” (2010) and his screenwriting team based the movie on the stage play of the same name, so the roots of the problems in the film lie with the play. There are some good songs, and some not so good. The film has good performers, like Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway (who won the Oscar for Best Actress), and absolutely terrible actors like Russell Crowe.
The story is set in the early 19th Century in France, adapted from the 1862 novel by Victor Hugo, and, quite frankly, is not very interesting. Hooper and screenwriters William Nicholson, Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schonberg, and Herbert Kretzmer have created a film that has a confusing plot, virtually no spoken dialogue, and uneven musical numbers.
The cast includes Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway, Russell Crowe, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne, Helena Bonham Carter, Sacha Baron Cohen, Samantha Barks, Aaron Tviet, and Daniel Huttlestone. Besides Hathaway, the movie won two other Academy Awards for Best Sound Mixing and Best Makeup and Hairstyling, out of eight nominations. It is a surprise that the unwatchable “Les Miserables” was a success at the box office for Universal Pictures, because it is a miserable motion picture!