Les Misérables Review.

Watched Les Misérables Starring Hugh Jackman, Russel Crowe, Anne Hathaway and Amanda Seyfried. I though the movie was overly depressing and overly dramatized film ever. Hugh Jackman gave one of his best performances in his career. He showed this rawness of emotion and vulnerability to the character of Jean Valjean. Jackman does have an amazing vocal ability that can be transmitted through the physicality and facial expression of interpretation. Anne Hathaway also gives an intense performance, but she is only in the movie for like 25 minutes. Anne Hathaway killer rendition of "I Dreamed a Dream" is one of its emotional highlights and the only strong scene that Hathaway showed her true vocal abilities. Russel Crowe was good in the film as Javert, but he was one of the weakest singers of all.  Sacha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham Carter were actually very funny and very charismatic as the comic relief couple the Thénardiers. Samantha Barks was the breakthrough actress in the film as Eponine. She has this beautiful and amazing vocal voice and her acting was so excellently well done. It was decently well directed by Tom Hooper and he takes this musical relatively naturalistic and grounded approach, a choice that's better suited to the subject matter of the story than to the fact that it takes place entirely in song. The script and dialogue was the weakest part of the film because seems like it's in a hurry, skittering from one number to the next without interlude. After Hathaway's early high point, it starts to feel numbing, an unending of overly melancholy. The cinematography of the film was very amazing and vividly well done. I really enjoyed that the vocals were recorded live on set. The majority of the big numbers are frequently recorded in close-up, and the camera holding on intimate shots of the performers as they stand or sit and sing. I believe this film is more of a character driving story and it has great performances from this all star cast. I will give it a B.