Review of Pilgrim's Progress movie

I just came across an insightful review of the new Pilgrim's Progress movie. The reviewer was Ethan Ledden of Filmweavers. I must say this looks like an interesting movie that might be worth watching. Take special note of what he says about the movie trailer.

Here are some excerpts from the review...

The film isn't an attempt to tell the whole Pilgrim's Progress story directly from the book but more to communicate the same basic story drastically cut down and still have it make sense. The format uses a combination of narration and acting which...I felt fit quite nicely what they were trying to do. It also uses a modern twist on the environment which I was skeptical of to be honest but in the end it really didn't come across "cheesy" as I thought it might.

...let me say if you saw the trailer and were turned off by it you might consider giving it another chance. The trailer was in my opinion pretty bad. It looked grade C. (cheesy) It may have lowered my expectations so much that when I saw the film itself I liked it. I'm not sure. Bottom line is the trailer didn't do it justice.

Cinematographer James Burgess pulled off some pretty nice camera work and lighting for this film. Once again let me say the trailer didn't do any of his work justice. The HVX200's color representation abilities come through very nicely. In addition the color grading on the film which Burgess also did make it all pretty nice to look at.

Read the rest of the review here.