Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 52% (Critics) / 60% (Audience)
Directed By: Bryan Singer
Written By: Darren Lemke, Christopher McQuarrie, Dan Studney and David Dobkin
Starring: Nicholas Hoult, Ewan McGregor, Stanley Tucci, Eleanor Tomlinson and Ian McShane
Studio: Warner Bros.

Synopsis: The ancient war between humans and a race of giants is reignited when Jack, a young farmhand fighting for a kingdom and the love of a princess, opens a gateway between the two worlds. (Source)

The Good:
I like Nicholas Hoult as an actor and have ever since seeing him on the UK series SKINS and while not given much more to do other than run, jump and make goo-goo eyes at Eleanot Tomlinson, Hoult does make lemonade out of the lemons he is given in this film. And I am assuming that Ewan McGregor got paid a shitload of money for his role in this move because he looks to be having the time of his life playing the role of Elmont the king’s guard and his joy could not have possibly come from the script.

The Bad:
The overuse of CGI in this movie is just one of the reasons why it stinks to high heaven. This movie cost $200 million yet the CGI was sloppy and amateurish. I have watched crappy straight-to-dvd horror movies with better CGI than this. It looked unprofessional and sloppy especially in scenes where the CGI characters interact with actual human
And to have so many good actors in a movie and waste them all is just a sin against the movie gods that should not go unpunished.

The Ugly
I would love someone to explain to my why M. Night Shyamalan as become moviedom’s public enemy #1 while Bryan Singer gets to keep making terrible project after terrible project? Singer has not made a good movie since X-MEN 2 and if he doesn’t deserve scorn for that pathetic SUPERMAN RETURNS then he should definitely take some hits for the smelly crap he took all over millions of people’s memories of THE MUNSTERS with that MOCKINGBIRD LANE craptacular. And he continues his march to Uwe Boll territory with his pedestrian directing job on JACK THE GIANT SLAYER.

Final Verdict: A cold, emotionless film that does nothing to make its audience feel anything more than irritation and apathy. The movie looks awful, the CGI is piss poor and the majority of the cast is squandered. Fie-fie-fo-fum I smell a terrible movie. And Bryan Singer needs to put on a movie-making time out until he can prove that he can be trusted with millions of dollars and a crew of good actors.

Grade: D-