Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Dakota Blue Richards and Ben Walker in a new movie - “The Golden Compass”. Its genre is not defined yet, it’s a perfect mixture of adventure, action, drama, fantasy and thriller. Writer: Chris Weitz. In the USA will be released on the 7th of December.

An amazing adaptation of a Philip Pullman novel His Dark Materials (namely the 1st book of the trilogy). A young student Laura Belaqua (Dakota Blue Richards) lives in Oxford’s Jordan College, she is just a young girl living together with scholars. One day she heard a conversation between her relatives. It was about an extraordinary particle. This particle was rumoured to be able to unite the Universe. It can be found exceptionally in the vast Artic expanse of the North. Unfortunately, there were people striving to destroy this particle and to prevent the Universe from uniting. Lyra turned to be a center and a main hero of this battle, she was destined to lose or to win…

What about my own impressions after The Golden Compass ?

They are quite ambiguous: from the one hand, acting was really incredible (Nicole Kidman is flawless here and Eva Green description of Dust and other world is brilliant), fascinating and good, some scenes grabbed my attention: for example, Ice Bear fighting, but on the other hand, without having profound knowledge what it is all about, you’ll hardly understand the movie. So, either read before watching or strictly follow the plot line. But, the movie was worth my attention and now I feel ashamed being cynical about it. So, watch it!!!