Artemis Fowl (2020) Movie Review or Artemis Fail or Artemis Falls

Hello guys and welcome back for another round of movie reviews, quarantine edition, with Movie Nerd, a place where you can be nerdy about movies, even in a pandemic:)))

So, I know that it has been a while since my last review but I am dealing with some stuff at the moment and I really didn't have the time to watch movies and do some reviews for said movies but I did find, last week, a small window to watch some movies and draft some reviews for them.

My first review is, as you can see from it's title, for the Disney+ flop Artemis Fowl and, as you can also deduct from the additional titles, I don't have a good opinion or any good opinions about this movie.

Before I get on with the review, a bit of a synopsis for you guys, even if you are accustomed with the book: The film details the adventures of Artemis Fowl II, a 12-year-old Irish prodigy who teams up with his faithful servant, a dwarf and a fairy in order to rescue his father, Artemis Fowl I, who has been kidnapped by another fairy looking to reclaim an item the Fowl family has stolen.

So, a pretty straightforward plot, if you can call it that for a very generic movie. If you don't know, the movie is based on a novel, written in 2001 by Eoin Colfer and Disney planned to release this in theaters this summer but, as we all know, the COVID pandemic started and now going to the movies is a thing of the past, so Disney released it on it's streaming platform which, in my opinion, was a damaging decision for this movie because it was a very huge flop and, having a chance to see it earlier, I imagine that it would have done worse if it was released in the cinema.

The movie follows not one, not two but three separate stories condensed in a barely 1 hour and 1 half movie. That is why we don't get any backstory of any form of an exposition on these characters that we are seeing on the screen, the little one not the big one or maybe you have a home cinema system in your house and in that case I say good for you. The plot feels so inconsistent and thin that it doesn't even resemble a well designed plot, not in the very slightest. Plus, I know it is based on a book but I have seen stories like this before, presented substantially well than this one but it feels so cliched.

The script is weak, the characters don't offer much in terms of emotions, humour or action because the emotions are missing giving the fact that we spend so little time with these characters, the humour is missing because not one bit of comedy works and the action is missing as well, apart from the final act of the movie which is not that great by the way either.

Special effects don't offer much in terms of spectacle and what can I say about the performances from the actors in this movie other than they did the best with what they got. Collin Farrell is wasted in this movie and I don't mean that he is drunk :)). He is a very good actor and the movie wasted his potential plus Judi Dench is one movie away from producing the trifecta of bad movies with an Oscar nominated actress. With this and the horrendous Cats she is already at two.

Overall, a huge let down for me in terms of story and everything else. It was a small hiccup for me but a giant burp for Disney:)). 3/10

OK guys, that was my review for this one. I will try to get more reviews in the coming days, just to see how my schedule will allow me to do that. The next one should be the new horror flick with Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried, You Should Have Left. Until then, take care, stay safe, stay clean, stay movie nerdy and keep on reviewing! Cheerio chaps!