Don't give too much credence to the Disney paid shills who leave 9 and 10 point reviews based on the point form 'talking points' they are given: Its pretty bloody awful, especially if you know the story and have been listening to the Xmas eve readings for +40 years. The technical mistakes are numerous. The variations from the original story are pointless and in good Disney fashion, it suffers from 'diversity disease' by creating characters in races and genders who were not a part of the story.
The animated sequences are average to poor with badly rendered star fields and unrealistic aircraft movements.
Sadly Travolta is two generations too old for the role he is playing and the beard is unforgivably inaccurate. Though the book character is Irish, they at least had the decency to make Travolta Canadian and not an American in the RAF.
Worst of all is that the strength of the story is dependent on the main character's internal dialogue and emotional struggle. Here we get none of it except for a few seconds of badly acted facial contortions. We also loose the backstory to the Travolta character entirely, the phone calls and speculations of the main character after he lands and sadly they opt for a cheesy one liner to explain the Travolta character's presence. Why they changed the Joe character from corporeal to illusory is without justification and changing the tone of the story to cheap and one dimensional
p.s. Dear poster artist: Vampires have two tail booms and two vertical stabilizers and rudders. Yuck.
The animated sequences are average to poor with badly rendered star fields and unrealistic aircraft movements.
Sadly Travolta is two generations too old for the role he is playing and the beard is unforgivably inaccurate. Though the book character is Irish, they at least had the decency to make Travolta Canadian and not an American in the RAF.
Worst of all is that the strength of the story is dependent on the main character's internal dialogue and emotional struggle. Here we get none of it except for a few seconds of badly acted facial contortions. We also loose the backstory to the Travolta character entirely, the phone calls and speculations of the main character after he lands and sadly they opt for a cheesy one liner to explain the Travolta character's presence. Why they changed the Joe character from corporeal to illusory is without justification and changing the tone of the story to cheap and one dimensional
p.s. Dear poster artist: Vampires have two tail booms and two vertical stabilizers and rudders. Yuck.