Right from the first few minutes, "Le Golem" reminded me, weirdly enough, of Alfred Hitchcock's "Jamaica Inn": a stuffy, unengaging period piece with a gifted director struggling with material that seems alien to his sensibilities. Even the eccentric emperor plays quite similarly to Charles Laughton's "putting on a show" style. The climactic Golem rampage is fun (the title creature, just a beefy man really, looks like a proto-Terminator), but it's a long, tedious wait getting there. The choppy, poorly preserved print does not help matters. *1/2 out of 4.
Review of The Golem: The Legend of Prague
