| The Golden Compass [2007] | ![The Golden Compass [2007]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2BkTzME3xL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Chris Weitz
Actors: Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Dakota Blue Richards, Ben Walker, Freddie Highmore
Studio: Entertainment in Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  87 reviews
Sales Rank: 106
Format: Pal
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: Parental Guidance
Running Time: 109 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5017239195600
ASIN: B0010X8FLM
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: April 28, 2008
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 Sadly disappointing adaptation with wooden dialogue May 12, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
So sad that Chris Weitz should have ruined the wonderful Philip Pullman trilogy. With a start as bad as this, what hope of significant improvement? The visuals are pretty good but the wooden dialogue with clunky descriptive inserts kills the dynamic.
This wonderful book has been dumbed down all the way with a script whose style would make Noddy sound elegant and sophisticated. Actors seem mostly to be trying hard, but with small effect.
Nicole Kidman could surely have played a bit better, and McKellen is either sadly miscast or poorly directed for his key part. Probably both. A plague on Hollywood!
No extras at all on our copy of the DVD
Not very engaging May 12, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
An OK film but it did not really grab us and make us stay in our seats. Nice CGI shame about the story.
 really disappointing May 11, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
the worst book-to-film adaptation i have EVER seen. what a shame. the books are amazing, this film is absolutely terrible. it's confusing, if i hadn't read the book i wouldn't have a clue what was happening. the special effects are poorly done. lyra seems to be reading her lines and doesn't know what she's meant to be doing. the relationships between the characters are non-existent and nobody seems to know who anybody else is... there's too much packed into not enough time...did they run out of money? were the actors working on other things at the same time so they forgot who/where they were supposed to be? the bears are the one saving grace but still i hate this film and am sooooo disappointed. i won't be watching the others. AND BY THE WAY, MR FILM MAKER, IT'S NOT A COMPASS!!!!
 Excellent May 10, 2008
3 out of 9 found this review helpful
What a treat to watch.I found no problem getting my head around the plot as some others seem to have and am eagerly awaiting the next film.
My heart soared at the ideas present within it and the parallels with our own predicament throughout earth's history, where various corporations/churches/organisations/ and other such institutions, formed or where usurped by diseased power mad groups of individuals, Blocking or perverting the growth of natures liberating knowledge for the sake of money/power whilst advancing the destructive elements. the fathers of lies and ignorance are present right here and right now with there flock of brain damaged sheep. This film gets the thumbs up from me and I was shocked to see the negativity in some of the reviews, I smell evangelical fundamentalists.
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2 out of 5 found this review helpful
What a huge disapointment. I could not not work out what was supposed to be happening and found it very boring. My kids could not get into it, one fell asleep and the other walked out of the room to do their homework. I would not recommend this film to anybody. Its about time Nicole Kidman took acting lessons, she is awful in it.
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