John Cusack does his usual self-absorbed "tortured" smartass routine, only this time he's Edgar Allan Poe in James McTeigue's fictional mystery about the final days of the author's life, The Raven.
It's a beautiful looking grisly film that tells a tightly wound little tale that unfortunately has no character to it. We're introduced to Poe's personal problems but they are never utilized in any sort of interesting character conflict, which makes me wonder why the character had to be Poe in the first place. It's got a few moments of intrigue but in the end it adds up to nothing but frustrated disappointment.
2 raccoons out of 5
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