Time Saver I know that many people would think that this is nothing new since everybody knows a story about the magic beans. But it is the idea of depicting such a story in an interesting and entertaining way that counts.This movie is a fairy tale in every respect, as it possesses all the required elements - the fantastic surroundings, lots of action, tense atmosphere, harmless jokes, simple-hearted good guys and unscrupulous bad guys with twisted agendas. Once again, nothing new, but everything neatly adapted for modern audiences.As the story goes, there is always something going on, thus the dull moments are rare, but unfortunately, due to such pace, there was no time for a more thorough character development.Other than that, I find this movie nice, amusing and easy to watch, and I therefore gladly recommend it.

sanjayasantoso For a movie that was supposed to entertain its audiences, 'Jack The Giant Slayer' deserved to be rated as a 4 star movie because it offers the fun to the audiences as a rapid and nonstop thrilling movie.. Making a fairy tale and twist it a little into a movie that entertain its audiences, I thought Bryan Singer did a great job in here.. For cast perhaps there's not much well-known actors involved except Ewan McGregor, Stanley Tucci, and the future girl's heart-rob actor Nicholas Hoult.. Their performance just okay and they looks like they're having fun with their adventure in this movie.. For the story itself, I like how Bryan Singer almost wrapped this adventure in an hour and a half and instead of finishing it with an open ending for a sequel possibility, he adds the fun which is the climax of this movie in the last 30 minutes.. Overall, I like how it's made and it is a fun movie to be watched..

Wizard-8 Hollywood has made some strange decisions over the years, and one of them has to be spending almost 200 million dollars on a movie based on the fairy tale "Jack and the Beanstalk". Actually, I guess it could have worked - fairy tales have been made into good movies before. But this cinematic telling doesn't really work. It does have some good things about it - the production design and special effects are well done, there are no slow spots, and occasionally some excitement is generated. But throughout the movie, it feels weighed down considerably by a feeling of gloom. The movie is pretty joyless - it feels dirty, cynical, and without a sense of fun. Also, the level of violence in the movie seems a bit much for what should have been a more family friendly film. It doesn't help that Nicholas Hoult, playing the central figure of Jack, it pretty underwhelming in the lead. (Though in fairness, the script doesn't give him much to make him a charismatic and multidimensional character - or any of the other actors for that matter.) As I mentioned earlier, the movie is not without merit, but you would be better off watching the 1962 movie "Jack the Giant Killer" instead.

ThatMOVIENut A modern reinvention of the famous fairytale, the 2013 version of Jack and the Beanstalk is what you'd expect: a young peasant boy gets wrapped into an adventure with knights who must rescue a princess snatched by the suddenly growing stalk, and then abducted by giants.Ultimately just sort of'there', Bryan Singer's fantasy adventure just feels like an exercise in studio 'box ticking' without much gusto or spark. This is thanks to a lot of unfinished CGI effects (a cinematic detailing the origin of the human/giant conflict trying to go for a 'woodcut' aesthetic but instead looking more like those glossy PS1 cutscenes with stretched textures and 'shine') and extreme'been there, done that' writing that won't do much for older viewers (and it doesn't have its tongue in cheek often enough to compensate). It gives us the most basic 'underdog saves princess and stops ancient evil from destroying land' plot in a while and again, not in a charming 'throwback' or self aware way like say Indiana Jones or Pirates of the Caribbean pulled off. However, its charismatic and talented cast do try, with Stanley Tucci being enjoyably hammy and slimy as a Jafar-esque adviser while veteran Ian McShane is imposing as the old King. Singer regular and Composer John Ottman provides a suitably bold and bombastic orchestral score ala classic John Williams that adds a greater sense of wonder and awe than the film itself allows at times. Plus the action, in spite of the passable effects, still has some neat moments of invention, like the giants using windmills as throwing blades, sending entire battalions of knights flying, and the giants themselves are suitably grotesque. However though, this does lead to the obvious jokes (seriously, take a guess as to what kind of broad, pandering comedy a bunch of filthy monsters are going to have in a family-aimed film).In the end, 'Slayer' is just safe, a film that ticks boxes and gets from A to B. It's perfectly passable family entertainment, and the kids will probably get into the giants and action, but unless you need a quick fantasy fix, go elsewhere.