The Pale Blue Eye

The Pale Blue Eye

West Point, New York, 1830. When a cadet at the burgeoning military academy is found hanged with his heart cut out, the top brass summons former New York City constable Augustus Landor to investigate. While attempting to solve this grisly mystery, the reluctant detective engages the help of one of the cadets: a strange but brilliant young fellow by the name of Edgar Allan Poe

  • Released: 2022-12-23
  • Runtime: 130 minutes
  • Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery
  • Stars: Christian Bale, Harry Melling, Robert Duvall, Timothy Spall, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Lucy Boynton, Charlie Tahan, Harry Lawtey, Simon McBurney, Hadley Robinson, Brennan Keel Cook, Gideon Glick, Fred Hechinger, Matt Helm, Jack Irving, Bill Cwikowski, Agnes Herrmann, Orlagh Cassidy, Scott G. Anderson
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  • joebloggscity - 4 May 2024
    Edgar Allan Poe plays detective....
    On the surface of it, this film had so much going for it. A host of fine actors very well known to the UK public at least and to the Harry Potter fandom, as well as a well received novel. Overall though I was a little underwhlemed by the film.

    The story revolves around the early 19th Century with murder mystery set in around baracks with the a young Edgar Allan Poe as a cadet roped in to help. It's a faction film (more fiction), and we see some gothic tales and shenanigans inevitably as this is Edgar Allan Poe we are talking about. The real lead of the film is played by Christian Bale who takes on Edgar Allan Poe to find the killers.

    Sounds intriguing, and it actually is but I was expecting so much more. I don't deny that the settings & direction were wonderful, whilst the acting is very convincing, but I just found it difficult to invest in the storyline. If anything, I kind of got lost in it all and was very little convinced by it.

    It's a decent enough film, but with its cast & likely generous budget, I feel it could have been so much more than it was.
  • yasseinsherif - 17 December 2023
    A movie that should be rated more
    First of this movie deserved at least an 8.5 But for that amount of issues and unnecessary time it lost that much rate

    1- the movie would be better if it was 90 minute

    2- lots of black holes that destroyed the movie

    3- the directing wasn't good

    4- the idea and the script could make a better movie with that nice crew

    -There's many scenes that could be better -1 the scene when the fire destroyed the house and the roof fall on them !!!!

    That's one of the most comedian scenes I have ever watched , could be done a lot better with the same idea And a lot more scenes

    After all not a bad movie at all.