Kamila Bell This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Janis One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

hannah51790 This is one of the best movies I've ever seen! Definitely one of my favorite!

Prismark10 Inkheart is an adaptation of a book released at a time when fantasy films aimed at families have been doing great box office. However the magic of great storytelling cannot be passed on to all adaptations and certainly not Inkheart which has an appalling screenplay.Brendan Fraser plays Mo Folchart, a silver tongue who has the ability of bringing book characters to life just by reading aloud. The catch being that someone or something from this world goes back in.This shift from the world of books to the real world creates havoc as there is a risk you might lose someone close. Andy Serkis plays Capricorn who along his henchmen uses these special readers for his own meansPaul Bettany plays Dustfinger a character from the book Inkheart and wants to be read back into the book.There is plenty of European location filming and some notable actors. The downside is that the film is confusing, uninteresting, heavy on clichés and lacks charm. The poor screenplay is a let down.

WakenPayne This movie is about someone with the ability of creating book characters to life just by reading aloud. The only catch of that is that when that happens someone or something from this world goes back in. Okay, interesting idea. Just needed to be executed a little bit better.The acting is solid for what has been given to the actors, everything is made on a competent level but there is nothing with it to make it shine at all.One thing I didn't like about the movie though was the ending, where Meggie starts to write down on her arm what she wanted to happen, then it does happen - Sorry I just couldn't work with that.So this is good for what it was but just really forgettable.

Charles Herold (cherold) I like the idea of this movie more than I do the movie itself. While the premise is clever, the story is not. It is riddled with inconsistencies. The plot is, except for a couple of twists, predictable, and often rather ridiculous. I also feel that the book-characters should be as vivid as characters in classic fairy tales, and they're really not. The fire guy just did not seem interesting to me; I can see him as a minor character in a book, but as a central one he'd be a washout. The main villain lacks true villainy; I feel the actor would be better playing a comic villain. But he's not funny either, just kind of forgettable.I also don't understand why the father has an American accent and his daughter has a British one. What's up with that?This is not a terrible movie. The acting is decent, the special effects are pretty good, and there are a couple of ideas I like, one of which is apparently not from the original book Inkheart. But overall I felt that restlessness I get when a movie is neither good enough to watch nor bad enough to stop watching.