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Title: The Raven (2012)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| John Cusack | ... | Edgar Allan Poe | |
| Luke Evans | ... | Detective Fields | |
| Alice Eve | ... | Emily Hamilton | |
| Brendan Gleeson | ... | Capt. Charles Hamilton | |
| Kevin McNally | ... | Maddux (as Kevin R. McNally) | |
| Oliver Jackson-Cohen | ... | John Cantrell | |
| Jimmy Yuill | ... | Captain Eldridge | |
| Sam Hazeldine | ... | Ivan | |
| Pam Ferris | ... | Mrs. Bradley | |
| Brendan Coyle | ... | Reagan | |
| Adrian Rawlins | ... | Doc Clements | |
| Aidan Feore | ... | Stage Manager | |
| Dave Legeno | ... | Percy | |
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Michael Cronin | ... | Old Gentleman |
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Michael Poole | ... | Professor |
This movie is set in the mid 1800s and involves poet Edgar Allan Poe. A serial killer is on the loose and murdering people using Poe's descriptions from his published stories and poems. Poe teams up with Detective Fields, a Baltimore policeman to try and catch the killer by using his knowledge of the descriptions. Even though the stories are fictional, they start to become reality and the killer is a step ahead of them. Then it takes on a personal note as Poe's lover becomes a target. Will they stop the killer in time? Written by Michael Hallows Eve
Well, not much to say about this movie really. It's not bad but it's definitely nothing memorable or impressive to watch either. It's all being good and entertaining enough to keep watching but by the end of it you won't feel like you got an awful lot out of the movie.
I think that the biggest problem of the movie is that it's being a very straightforward mystery/thriller, which at the same time also makes it a very standard and formulaic one. Normally I would complain when a movie has too many distractions in it but in this case it most likely wouldn't had harmed this movie. Some more character, or some more different story lines would had perhaps made this movie a more interesting one.
The movie now becomes a bit tiresome after a while. There is not enough variation and the movie just never really manages to become a tense one, with any of its mystery or thriller elements. Who knows, maybe it also was the movie its low budget that prevented it from ever making a real impact and the reason why the movie seems to be lacking the right required type of atmosphere.
A problem of the movie also lies with its main character. No, I'm not saying that John Cusack is a poor actor in this movie but his character simply isn't being a good or interesting enough. There was so much they could had done, after all he plays Edgar Allan Poe in this movie but it feels as if the film-makers were holding back with just about everything and decided to play things safe, making this a very standard and therefore also predictable little movie.
No it's not a horrible movie to watch but just a movie that offers far too little to its viewers.
6/10
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