An aura of disappointment takes hold midway into Golden

An aura of disappointment takes hold midway into Golden Compass blu-ray and becomes undeniable by the finish. In the end The Golden Compass is another expensive mishmash of CGI magic and widescreen spectacle: well-acted, as you would expect, but more or less empty of anything to provoke the curiosity and intelligence of a young audience. The Golden Compass concludes in a way that left me feeling teased and cheated. For a film that supposedly promotes Atheism, at least its more entertaining than last years Christian allegory The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. If you havent read the books, it can be like wandering into a stuffy church service in a cathedral for the first time. More thought seems to have went into providing grist for future sequels that have not been made than the film that was.