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I'll weigh in and say that I rented it today and I liked it. I would not have been as enthused to have seen it in the theater, because the big screen would not have enhanced the viewing pleasure. However, the story was good, the plot was great;
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I liked the way things did not work out the way they were thought to be at first (ie. plot twists)...and the crazy wolf-thing was really a great antagonist as to keep the whole supernatural aspect of it alive, since the sea nymph could be forgotten as being non-human by the audience. </font>
The plot played out in a quiet way, and was not the type of action and intensity one gets from a car chase or whatever...it was more calm except for when the wolf-thingy was out and about. Even then, there was no amazing fight scenes with it or anything that would have ruined the whole story,
<font color=gray>because the repair man was not that sort of hero. He wanted to fight the thing to help save the nymph, but he was just a scared human that could not have hoped to win against it. There was another that was to be the one to keep that wolf at bay, and I knew who that was from the beginning. It was too easy.
Which brings me to my next point. The critic.
The critic in the story is unlikeable and has a moment in the story where he tries to show off that he is smarter than the story. I think that was a great jab at movie critics, and I applaud the story for putting that in. </font>
All said and done, I would definately advise this movie as a rental to story lovers like us who look for a bit of magic to come save us from the mundane life we live. </font>
[ 12-28-2006, 02:28 PM: Message edited by: Larry_OHF ]
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