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Salem Witch Trials (2002)
Am-dram
I was recommended this as being excellent and I managed to struggle through an hour and a half before giving up. I'm not 'into' film so this review is purely based on my thoughts and feelings, NOT a quasi professional film critique like many reviews on here.
First, it was boring. Really boring. Second, the acting was just OK. Third, the accents were terrible and off-putting, ranging from Australian outback to South African. Some Dick Van Dyke level cockney thrown in too. As an English person it really bothered me and at first I was confused...why were there so many Australians in Salem? It took me a while to realise they were supposed to be English accents I was hearing and it really stopped me from being immersed in the drama.
I don't know anything about Salem and the history so I've got no comment on the film's truthfulness.
It looked like a made for TV movie, it was acted like a made for TV movie.
At the beginning when they are all screaming in the courtroom you saw some of the women being shown as 'witches' and it looked like something an amateur dramatic group would come up with. I should have stopped watching then but I was fooled by the gushing reviews this film has and I really tried to get into it but for me personally it was absolutely dreadful.
We can't all like the same things in life and as I said, I'm not knowledgeable in film but as a viewer who expects to be entertained and 'transported' this film failed miserably.