How does a book tell the book and the book-adapted-movie tell the book which tells the book too? Well it's Inkheart. If you judged the cover, you must feel it is satisfiying. There were Brendan Fraser, Academy Award winners Helen Mirren and Jim Broadbent, Paul Bettany, Andy Serkis (who 'played' Gollum) and a very little of Jennifer Connelly.
The story was about Mortimer who had the ability of bringing characters from storybooks to life by reading them out loud. These kind of people who had this ability were known as Silvertongues. hen he read a book titled Inkheart, the characters were brought alive and his wife got into the storybook world. Unfortunately, the book to bring those characters back and to save his wife was extremely rare. He discovered that the antagonist part from the book, Capricorn had built an army and a castle full of imaginary and real monsters brought to life. Not only Capricorn ambitiously dreamt of ruling the world, he also held captive of Mortimer's wife.
If you watched this based on the trailer, you must been fooled by the cool trailer. Actually Inkheart resembles a good story but unfortunately weak. In the end of the story, Mo's daughter, Meggie could write and read her writing and made it happen. Why didn't Mo write and save his wife at the first place? Also, why should Capricorn required Mo or Meggie to be his Silvertongue? he could use Darius who was more stupid and easily fooled, just make him read the whole thing and it should be fine. Furthermore, the special effects were still visible as fake. There are also good things though such as the actors' acting, they were quite well. Paul Bettany looked cool as Dustfinger. Inkheart: rated C-
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