Réalisation:
Ridley ScottScénario:
William HjortsbergPhotographie:
Alex ThomsonActeurs·trices:
Tom Cruise, Mia Sara, Tim Curry, David Bennent, Billy Barty, Annabelle Lanyon, Robert Picardo, Peter O'Farrell, Kiran Shah, Cork Hubbert (plus)VOD (1)
Résumés(1)
Lili, jeune et jolie princesse, est convoitée à la fois par Jack, jeune homme proche de la nature, et par Darkness, véritable incarnation du mal, qui ne rêve que de plonger le monde dans une nuit éternelle en tuant les deux licornes protectrices. Avec l'aide du lutin Gump et de ses acolytes Screwball et Tom Brown, Jack se lance dans une quête désespérée pour mettre fin aux agissements du démon et empêcher la transformation de Lili en créature perverse. (texte officiel du distributeur)
(plus)Critiques (2)
After a Blu-ray screening, with a widescreen and perfectly polished image, I can safely say that Scott's Legend is the most visually beautiful fairytale ever to appear on cinema screens. It may not as sophisticated and thought-provoking as, say, The NeverEnding Story, but the form, my friends, the form is unique. It’s a pity that it’s not properly appreciated by a wider audience. Scott was in extraordinary form in the first half of the 1980s. And Goldsmith's beautiful music is a chapter on its own.
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A strange piece that is not helped by several visual tricks from Scott's workshop. The worst thing is that this attempt doesn't try to lean towards either fantasy or fairy tale. On one hand, it creates a dark and depressive mythology around unicorns and also borrows purely Tolkien-inspired world from The Silmarillion, but on the other hand, it gets lost in a series of weirdness and deaf spots. It doesn't come together, and when I add one of Cruise's few performances that really annoyed me, it turns out to be Scott's worst film.
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