This film has a lethargic mess of bloated screenplay (running time around 140 minutes) that doesn't even use its long running time to bother with developing any of the new characters it introduces, and the familiar 4 siblings are still bland and uncharismatic to the core. I put the blame squarely on Andrew Adamson, the director, who also shares screenwriting credit on the film. Adamson simply doesn't know how to handle this material, or shoot a visually interesting film.
The first 2/3 of the film was just boring mind-numbingly inane in terms of character actions (resulting in consequences seen a mile away, with no empathy from me when their plan of attack goes horribly wrong). The last third of the film is okay in terms of action, but it's almost laughable how bloodless all the sword stabbings and slashing that takes place on screen (in order to keep the rating kiddie-friendly, even though the action is about using swords to eviscerate your enemies, shooting arrows into people, and launching boulders from far away with catapaults that cause really big divots in the ground and through structures).
I give it 2 stars, or a grade of C.
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