if you saw the preview and thought pas and i would call you prudent . if you have be a fan of susan cooper beloved book series since you be a kid and saw the preview and think maybe it would not be as bad a it seem . and then i weep for your broken childhood love . if you be like me and think even if it be cheesy and it might turn out to be fun and then i be give you a get out of jail free card with this review . it be not enough that we must be subject to one dimensional character and painfully predictable dialogue and hackneyed plot line and cliché villain and headache induce camera work and and one of the bad climax ever record . no . not by a long shot . the atrocity here run deeper . our intelligence be insult and our taste be ridicule and and our freedom of choice turn on u and squeeze it fist around our throat . this film register a a negative and a black hole and in the canon of cinematic creation . there be part where i imagine the producer say and just leave it that way . they will never notice or you do not have to explain that and it will fly right over their head . i understand that the budget for this film be ( gasp ) a measly 20 million dollar and but lack of financial resource be never and ever an excuse to fee gold plat crap to the mass . christopher eccleston fan may get a slight quiver of a laugh out of his ( fail ) quirky turn a the rider and the wraith like shape shift ambassador of the dark . but in all seriousness and i think he may have just need a few extra buck for a down payment on an aston martin he might have have his eye on . otherwise the acting be not even a subject to be bring up and since cardboard cutout do not require much effort to portray . the special effect be where all the money go and and theyre fairly decent . though i refuse to count this a praise and any more than i would appreciate a smattering of whipped cream on the top of a rancid pile of stink and eight week old peach cobbler . in any fantasy and there be rule that must be set and limitation where magic be to be find . otherwise and the whole thing become a free for all that never hold any kind of credibility . i do not think i have the time or the energy to describe all of the problem and violation and and inconsistency i saw occur within this film that barely top two hour . it would be a real challenge for someone to sit down and try to catch them all . there be no respect for the genre here and just a seemingly voracious need to exploit the current fantasy craze . if after the lord of the ring and the chronicle of narnia and and harry potter and the bigwig in the studio think that this sort of thing can pass a acceptable and then the legacy of story be over already . yes and i be be overly dramatic and but at this point and it too late to turn back . time once lose be not recoverable and money once spent require more labor to regain and and the wish to walk away from a story feel like we have be entertain and have our mind and heart open and once dash be hard press to be soothe back again from boundless feeling of deep discontent and a sense that we have be rob . it break my heart and and i leave this film genuinely livid .