Jenifer Horwath

I’m a bit saddened by all of the horrible reviews. I get it, people were disappointed by how it wasn’t “magical”, but also people expect too much from movies these days. It’s a movie. It was no worse than all the other movies they are pumping out. It was fun, had funny banter and they had Easter eggs in it, which I found amusing. Russel Crowe makes a wonderful Dr. Jekyl/Mr. Hyde and it’s crushing to me to know that people were so hard on this film that the producers scrapped the entire project and now we’ll never see the whole thing come to fruition. I truly can’t understand how this movie got such bad ratings, but I guess I’m just easily entertained and go into movies with very low expectations so I don’t get disappointed anymore. I’m guessing it got bad reviews because it was targeted towards all generations but they used movie stars from older movies instead of younger people, and younger people aren’t trying to watch movie stars from the 80’s/90’s. That’s just my guess. If they were going to put the older movie stars in then a cameo from Brenden Fraser surely would have raised the Rotten Tomatoes score by 20+ points. It’s a bit confusing to know what the producers were going for by casting Tom Cruise. But in all reality, it’s a movie. I liked it. My husband liked it. My circle of friends and family liked it. I guess everyone else hated it though. If everyone would just lower their standards a tad when going into movies then they wouldn’t experience the soul-crushing disappointment they all said they had.