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Movie Mayhem – Maleficent: Mistress of Evil

Posted by Bryan Caron in Entertainment, Film, Movies, Reviews on October 20, 2019

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil — 2019; Directed by Joachim Rønning; Starring Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Michelle Pfeiffer, Harris Dickison, Sam Riley and Chiwetel Ejiofor

If you’ve been reading my blog since the beginning, you may have read my review of Maleficent way way back in 2014. In that review, I was very critical of the film in many aspects, including the watered-down — or non-existent — relationship between Maleficent (Angelina Jolie) and Aurora (Elle Fanning) that was supposed to be the crux of the plot, as well as the lack of character development to make the whole idea behind telling the story of Sleeping Beauty from Maleficent’s perspective. The film was okay, and there was a lot to like, it just felt flat and uneven because it wasn’t executed to its full potential.

Changing things up behind the scenes was a good start for Maleficent: Mistress of Evil. Joachim Rønning takes over the directing reigns from Robert Stromberg and lifts the energy of the film to a new level, even while falling into many of the same traps the first film setup because everything on-screen is exactly the same.

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