We didn't quite know what to make of Ryan's somewhat over-reaching debut on a film that's difficult to classify (or to like much, it must be added). Played out against a backdrop of over-sold repossessed sub-prime mortgaged properties, film seems set in a kind of Mad Max-like low tech, post apocalypse, but in score and dark lighting has a horror-film kind of thing going on, reinforced when mum Christina Hendricks walks literally through the jaws of the devil into a horror-show inspired freak club.
Meanwhile Gosling-like protagonist Iain de Caestecker befriends Saiorse Ronan (whose gran - to add to the resonance - is none other than former horror queen Barbara Steele) whilst trying to evade scissor-happy nasty Matt Smith.
To me though it ends up a kind of mythical tale of a knight who descends into the underwater city to rescue a magical object with which to slay the dragon and save the princess. This coupled with David Lynch moments (and scenes in a sex vault I was happy not to understand) leaves something of a confusion in the audience.
Stylish images from Benoit Debie, who shot the controversial Irreversible and the unmentionable Spring Breakers.
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