The magic charm of the confrontation between light and darkness in the original book is completely lost in the film. It is understandable to want to catch up with the "fashionable bus" of magic literature before the trend subsides, but it is really shameless to come up with such a riddled script to scare people. Seeing people, the classic British style that should have become a feature has been replaced by the stench of cheap Hollywood third-rate workshops
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The child strives to defeat the demon, and the audience strives to exorcise the sandman
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So much has been lost in the transition from fiction to the big screen that it's even more fun to put the story on the Xbox console
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