Wonderful character development!

This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

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

Rarely in this day and time do I see a movie that makes me tear up with joy or tear up at all. "Winters Tale" is what could be good about all movies. Your imagination is given a tour for all time. Every scene is done very well. Not to give to much away but hope is never so important and used delicately in the world this film lives in. Preteens viewing this with their parents could really enjoy this as well. Casting was done very well I thought. The ending leaves you smiling and my feelings were rewarded to say the least. This Film is a strong 8 and I rarely leave a comment so strong as this one. I hope you can enjoy it as much as we did. My wife and I rarely agree on a movie.. But this one did it for both of us.

The film incorporates ancient beliefs about life. We are all connected by light. We turn into stars when we die. There is one miracle in all of us.The gods/angels/demons intervene.In our tale Peter (Colin Farrell) is a thief in NYC. He leaves the dark side run by a demon Pearly (Russell Crowe) and joins the good side. Pearly works for Lucifer (Will Smith) and is after Peter who meanwhile falls in love with a pretty redhead (Jessica Brown Findlay) who is about to die from TB. Peter literally lifts her off her feet and rides off on a magical white horse. This leaves me really skeptical: Did a guy really write this? This is a slow developing story. It has several good scenes and a number of snooze scenes. I would leave out the narration which assumes the audience are idiots and work whatever ideas it gives us into the Lucifer dialog.This is a soft PG-13.

Where are the awards for Winter's Tale?? This truly is the best love story I have seen...almost,ever. In my opinion, Colin Farrell should have won the award for "best actor" "best performance" of the year, hands down.The reviewers aren't even close to getting this one right. This is totally magical, the soundtrack, the photography, the story, everything was unique.One glitch I noticed (after watching it several times) was that Will Smith wasn't listed with the other stars, in the "closing credits". What happened there? For the record, I think that anyone who understands this movie, can look around at other people with a little more grace and compassion as it is possible that they could be someone's miracle. I think we need to be reminded of that more often. I recommend this film to every woman on the planet.

Why? I have seen quite a few bad movies. I have to confess, 80% of the movies I see are worthless US and European flicks. However, many of them has sparks of intelligence, humour, irony, realism, or some good acting, enjoyable characters, actions, effects, story, punchline, dialogue, etc. This one has none of these. (Maybe the horse when it does his act).I think the reason is that it states that love is wonder. And this is an overstatement.Each event in the movie is boiled for minutes and then executed step-by-step by the book. (I do not mean the book it was based on.) At the start of the scene you know how it will end. The idea for the movie is so slim that it cannot be stretched this long (nearly 2 hours). It is overstrung.Leading actors Colin Farrell, Russell Crowe and Will Smith act as if ... well, they do not act and they do not look in place. The conversations are lengthy and overdone. Crowe's supposed-to-be-hellish look from under is simply boring.I gave one point for the horse, and the other for the belle.A waste of time.