when i saw the very first trailer and i be already sure that this film wasn not go to be one of my all time favorites . i go into the movie with rather low expectation and but still i come out totally disappointed . don not get me wrong and i be not a rag fan of the original book and to be honest i have never read one . i do not even who who the hell this lemony snicket be ( and after watch this movie and i do not even care ) . so and i be not say that it be a bad adaptation and i be say it be a bad film . right after the film boost off and we can hear the gentle voice of jude law whine annoyingly about some kid and we do not even know yet . you good get use to this whining and because mostly that be gon na be what you hear during the rest of the movie . then we finally meet those kid . two little boy and a bit elder sister and with their mommy and daddy . mom and dad dy right away and so the kid dig up their relative all around the world and and ask them and to take care of them child . all of them answer yes . gladly . and but the evil count olaf kill them one by one and to get his hand on the kid legacy . just when this monotonous method get very tedious and the movie end and and you can watch some very well make cartoon end credit ( surely they want to make up for the rest of the movie ) . what the hell be this all about . who the hell be those kid and and why should we and or that lemony sicket guy care about them . and who the hell be lemony snicket and and why be it necessary for him to whine during the whole movie . why should i sit through a movie and which have no end . this movie be a miserable attempt to ride the wave of the adaptation frenzy . that it . and the most unfortunate event about this movie and be that it succeed somehow . i could tolerate all the stupidity and and dumbness in the movie version of lord of the ring and or harry potter and but in this case they fail to put together a standalone movie . even more unfortunate and that some of the staff really try . techincally and the film look marvelous . the costume and the scenery and the color and they all come together really well and and we can see the hard work in it ( i do not understand though and why a story with basically no wondrous element should get a so out of this world scenery ) . i feel pity for this group of the filmmaker and for have to take part in a mess like this . they deserve good . good than the director and the writer and and the main actor in this movie . yes and i be talk about jim carrey . i can not see why most people melt down from the performance he do here . it hysterical . count olaf in carrey role be a rag idiot and with no real character and and a stupid fake beard . as far a i know and there no attempt to make a sequel and so this movie remain a torso forever . a money monging pile of crap . but if a sequel come around soon and i be sure it wouldn not be more either than an attempt to fee some fat producer .