Review of Red Riding Hood (2011) by Tibor B — 30 Jul 2012
Embarrassingly poor effort from Catherine Hardwicke and writer David Leslie Johnson to bring Red Riding Hood to the big screen. It's not exactly an epic saga, so the first question I asked was how can it be feature length? Well the answer is Hardwicke basically rehashes her Twilight film, with lame CGI wolves, lukewarm teen romance and performances that range from utterly dull (the boys), solid but forgettable (Seyfried) and, well, Gary Oldman in full bad film mode.
The film might have generated a glimmer of credibility and interest had it been filmed fairly realistically, on location etc. But, like everything else about it, it settles for lazy and cheap with awful mock-external studio sets.
I can't even see the Twilight crowd buying into it.
This review of Red Riding Hood (2011) was written by Tibor B on 30 Jul 2012.
Red Riding Hood has generally received mixed reviews.
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