Inkheart Critic Reviews

Most of the time it looks like we're on the back lot for a Romanian production of "Lord of the Rings IV."Read the full review

Not realizing that Inkheart is based on a famous fantasy novel, I had the foolish hope the movie might be about books. No luck. Wait till you hear what it's about.Read the full review

Mirren's all-out display in this distinctly British absurdo-literary extravaganza had me wishing Elinor were my own fabulous auntie and that she'd lend me some magic items from her closet.Read the full review

With no unifying sensibility, the magic thuds more often than it soars.Read the full review

Inkheart looks good and is well acted but, in the end, it left me indifferent.Read the full review

Seemingly intended as a celebration of the power of books, it's an occasionally incoherent, sleep-inducing picture that reduces narrative to mere mechanics.Read the full review

Inkheart goes crazy with fairy tale characters popping in and out, all sorts of fantastical creatures materializing and so many rescues one loses count. Yet the movie fails to involve the key constituent: the audience.Read the full review

Aims for a blend of whimsy and tingly suspense but botches nearly every spell it tries to cast.Read the full review

The story itself is so charmingly dense, fractious, and complicated that it frequently leaves the obvious good-guy-fights-bad-guy groove, and noses toward Terry Gilliam-esque randomness and ebullience.Read the full review