Sleepy Hollow
As reviewed by Miguel Calasnikov Kesey
Unless you're a hard man like Juan, who expected to be scared by this film, you're in for a rollercoaster ride of adventure, well, without being strapped into a big metal box or on a track of any kind, not in a theme park, and basically, not on a rollercoaster at all.
This film stars Johnny Depp Blue Something of "Edward Shitzerhands" and "Who Is Eating Grapes, Ya Gilbert?" fame, and Christina Ricci Martin, of "The Addamsandler Family" fame. It's based on "The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow", so it's basically about a headless horseman.
This headless horseman, however, seems to be an uncredited Christopher Walken (of evil bastard fame) who beheads somebody every night when he is summoned in the quiet, suburban streets of Sleepy Hollow, Detroit. Johnny Depp is a policeman of the forensics variety who, despite coming from New York has a rather silly English accent. He is called in to catch the horseman. At first he's a big anti-skeptic, and doesn't believe in the horseman, however, after an encounter with him...aha...
It's a whodunnit for the crime-bored really. And I enjoyed it. I think the fact that halfway through the film Johnny Depp seemed to get bored and start taking the piss was what sealed it for me. The faces he pulls and the dreadful use of the accent surely can't be Tim Burton's instructions, not from a guy who made Michael Keaton go : "Stop..." in Batman.
Anyway, a good little gothic film, as all the Burton-boy's are.