Why 20th Century Fox mounted a $70 million fantasy on his frail shoulders is a question that can never be answered, although it appears that someone affiliated with the movie realized they had a problem, and late in the going, a new young hero (Garrett Hedlund), far more charismatic than poor Ed, is brought in to fire off a few arrows and brood sexily in the background. He seems like he's on crack or something.Īlas, these great actors, this great dragon, even the good-spirited Anne Arundelian Renaissance Festival staff, all revolve around a rather dim young man named Ed Speleers, who appears to be pleasant enough but who has the charisma of a smile button, as well as the complexity.
Another exception would be John Malkovich, also a brilliant actor at his least brilliant, hamboning it up as the bad king Galbatorix of Alagaesia. Oh, wait, the movie has made me incoherent. The exception is the brilliant African actor Djimon Hounsou, who has never been less brilliant he appears to be wearing Sidney Poitier's pageboy wig from 1963's "The Long Ships." Everyone else - save one - looks as if they were recruited at the Renaissance Fair in Anne Arundel County. Irons, who looks as though he just cycled in nonstop on Route 66 from a roadshow company of "Hamlet" in Oklahoma City, is cast as Brom, spiritual adviser to boy dragon rider Eragon and general font of wisdom for a movie that features little beyond his own sense of craft and a pretty good flyin' lizard. It's just the one that stuck in my mind, with the delicious upturn of "elves" at the end.
It may be worth the eight and a half bucks you have to pay the makers of "Eragon" just to hear the great English actor Jeremy Irons say the line, "Before you can cast a spell, you must learn the magic language of the elves."Īnd that is not the only silly line Irons, with his grave face and tragic mien, is required to utter in this silly symphony of a film.
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