The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

The ancient war between humans and a race of giants is reignited when Jack, a young farmhand fighting for a kingdom and the love of a princess, opens a gateway between the two worlds. Jack the Giant Slayer is not perfect it has some clunky cgi and a bit of cheesy one liners and humor but the over the top action, some terrific cgi effects and the good perfomances from the cast make for a good and enjoyable sci-fi adventure from director Bryan Singer (X-Men, X-Men 2, X-Men: Days of Future Past and X-Men: Apocalypse). (7.5/10)

So i gave it a try today and here i am presenting with my very first review. :D After watching the movie, I felt like perhaps i expected a bit more b'Cox of the trailer and the fact that the film could have depicted more of an adventurous theme rather than flowing along the cliché.The special effects were too obvious to pick at, the slow moving and dead story-line fails to engage the audience throughout the movie, no surprise element is there to indulge the par imaginations with the "giant world" {I wonder why they did not showed the world above and its inhabitants the different way, something that will flabbergast the viewers when they meet the giant world}.. Though i must admit that the movie had had some good parts, reason why I'm marking it 5 out of 10.My advice = Go and watch if you're full of boredom and have no choice but this movie, otherwise save your time.

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.

The princess wants adventure, but is very much a pawn in the film. Constantly being rescued from bullies, the rain, the cooking pot, the beanstalk, the giant, and then her controlling father. Every film doesn't have to be feminist, but I mean, is she nothing more than 'the prize'? I know it was just fairytale fun but each little bit helps to further the myth that women need male protection. Especially protection provided by a clod like Jack. Jack, though very brave was more than a little dim, in this version he went to market to sell a perfectly good horse and a cart for some thatch to mend the leaky roof. Thatch. Jack is a farmer. Sell the horse and cart to buy some thatch? it's like a fisherman selling his fishing boat to buy a sardine. He proved handy with his sword though, and that's all that matters in the end.