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Who is a british scholar, a very well—to—do british scholar who studies narrative, the origins of stories and myths. she's travelling the world. she buys a vase. out of the vase comes a genie played by idris elba, who grants her three wishes. well, she understands how narrative works. she knows that granting three wishes, it's usually a kind of it's a cautionary tale — don't take the wishes. you know how that works out. this is an oddly baffling film. i really like tilda swinton. i really like idris elba. the problem with this is a lot of the time with the special effects — the special...

Played by idris elba, who grants her three wishes. well, she understands how narrative works. she knows that granting three wishes, it's usually a kind of it's a cautionary tale — don't take the wishes. you know how that works out. this is an oddly baffling film. i really like tilda swinton. i really like idris elba. the problem with this is a lot of the time with the special effects — the special effects are very, very cgi—heavy. it felt like i should be reading this as a story. i should maybe be listening to it as a radio play or as an audiobook, but sometimes looking at it kind of mak...

This is an oddly baffling film. i really like tilda swinton. i really like idris elba. the problem with this is a lot of the time with the special effects — the special effects are very, very cgi—heavy. it felt like i should be reading this as a story. i should maybe be listening to it as a radio play or as an audiobook, but sometimes looking at it kind of makes the magic too literal and, therefore, ironically takes the magic out of it. i mean, it's ambitious and it has some interesting ideas, but it's a mess. and it kind of reminded me of — there's a film called what dreams may come, wh...

Is the emotional core of the film. it's her character that drives the action, it's her emotional arc that gets you involved, and the real talent is that what she manages to do is to inject something that approaches human emotions into scenes which are big, smashy, crashy, cgi stuff coming on, you know, multi—verse stuff, in the middle of it, you believe in her. everybody else is doing pantomime stuff very well and nicely orchestrated, a bit cgi—heavy for my liking, but she's the one kind of divining rod. ok, i believe in that character and i believe in the stuff that she's going through an...