Review of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016) by Steviegjd — 19 Oct 2016

I wanted to like this movie. While Tim Burton is an uneven director, he certainly has a unique vision and sense of visual style. I liked Asa Butterfield in Hugo and Ender's Game; he is good here too.

Eva Green is striking and is fine in the film. The acting is mostly pretty good. The art direction is really good. But the story or the way it is edited lets the film down. It starts really slowly and takes a while to get to it.

Then it rushes through the interesting parts to get to the action scenes in the final act. There is not enough character development, literally none with many characters. This could have been much better.

As it is, it was just ok.