Like the season, Winter's Tale proves to feel longer than one would prefer. This film would've been great, if it wasn't so nonsensical. Keeping it exactly as it was, perhaps Winter's Tale would've gone down better as an animation.Yes, it's a fantasy film, and yes, suspending disbelief is among the top rules to follow, especially with today's modern methodology of movie making, but, though too many things made little to no sense in this film, what the actual tragedy is, most of them did so unnecessarily, and that can diminish the enjoyment factor quite significantly.Also, Beverly and Peter's connection was thin. Whether it's because of Colin and Jessica's chemistry,Goldman's directing or a combination of both, the 2 leads' connection throttles the love component, a component which is in fact, the entire basis of this film. Love can be portrayed in one sentence, so the immediate love arc isn't the problem, the directing and the story was.I understand why some may love this movie, however I have to believe that, to love this movie you either 1). Saw, and chose/managed to ignore all the many things wrong with it or 2). You were unable to see its copious short-comings.Truthfully, the best thing I can say about Winter's Tale is that, it had great potential, but got lost in what it thought, was great. Hell (Get it), even Will Smith's performance was pretty awful, and William's, well, it almost hurt, to watch. 4.5/10.P.S. Was anybody else reminded of Tangled while watching this film?

The film incorporates ancient beliefs about life. We are all connected by light. We turn into stars when we die. There is one miracle in all of us.The gods/angels/demons intervene.In our tale Peter (Colin Farrell) is a thief in NYC. He leaves the dark side run by a demon Pearly (Russell Crowe) and joins the good side. Pearly works for Lucifer (Will Smith) and is after Peter who meanwhile falls in love with a pretty redhead (Jessica Brown Findlay) who is about to die from TB. Peter literally lifts her off her feet and rides off on a magical white horse. This leaves me really skeptical: Did a guy really write this? This is a slow developing story. It has several good scenes and a number of snooze scenes. I would leave out the narration which assumes the audience are idiots and work whatever ideas it gives us into the Lucifer dialog.This is a soft PG-13.

Found as a kid in a small boat, raised and trained by a very influential man, Peter spends his time robbing safes and evading the authorities. That is, until one day he meets a beautiful but dying young woman for whom he falls.It's a fantastic movie in which people strongly believe in destiny, that each person has one and he/she cannot die unless it is fulfilled. After death, people become stars and live together with their loved ones in the universe. It's dramatic and sad in its core but impresses through it's fantastic world which slowly unveils. It's a captivating atmosphere which keeps you interested throughout its entirety, but it has many moments of boredom. Also, the story is good and pretty coherent, but isn't very satisfying, a little more work regarding it could have made a lot better. Still, it's a good movie overall.

'Winter's Tale' has a lot of hate and I was fully expecting to be one of the haters, but there's something about this movie that I enjoyed. For a love story, the plot isn't as predictable and cheesy as you would expect, which is perhaps why I managed to sit through it without getting bored.The cinematography in 'Winter's Tale' is terrific - the best part of the movie. If you can tolerate the somewhat lame plot, then you can at least appreciate the excellent visuals. This is the sort of movie that you can easily pick holes out of, but ultimately it is a fantasy movie - if you watch it with an open mind, it isn't all that bad.'Winter's Tale' functions well as a romantic/fantasy movie and manages to be watchable for people who perhaps aren't normally interested in this genre.