The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus- 8/10
I have to say, this wasn't a bad movie. I have to give them points for pulling off a movie when the main actor died a third of the way through it. For those of you who don't know, this was the last movie Heath Ledger was in. I'm a Heath Ledger fan so I wanted to see it. It took me 5 years but glad I did. Basically the movie follows a small theater troupe ran by a centuries old monk who made a deal with the devil for everlasting life. The catch is as part of the deal, he must give the devil his daughter on her 16th birthday. He makes a new deal with the devil to keep her daughter but it is a race to get 5 souls. In the meantime, they save Ledgers character from dying who now has a bout of amnesia but they eventually learn of his shifty past.
This movie is worth checking out, especially if you like Heath Ledger. How they filled the holes in scenes where he was dead was pretty well done and they ended up bringing in Ledger's friends Johnny Dep, Colin Farrell and Jude Law to play Ledger's character in the dream world. A lot of rewriting had to be done but they pulled it off. If you do decide to see this movie, its worth getting it in HD because the special effects are pretty cool. Also, if you smoke weed, I'd do that beforehand because it is a movie you can appreciate when your high