The BBC’s singular adaptation of Philip Pullman’s trilogy concludes with astonishing CGI and fantastic performances – particularly the deliciously evil Wilson
‘Eclipses Nicole Kidman’s merely chilly performance’ … Ruth Wilson with Dafne Keen in His Dark Materials.‘Eclipses Nicole Kidman’s merely chilly performance’ … Ruth Wilson with Dafne Keen in His Dark Materials.e’ve lost the rear oscillator,” says the snow leopard to Lord Asriel. James McAvoy’s face tightens, because his fascinatingly realised steampunkish flying machine is on a collision course with what air crash investigators call, in their quaint way, the ground.
While in Milton’s poem Satan and his cohorts are cast out from heaven, Pullman’s fantasy has it that the empyrean is already ruled by an angel just as hubristic and power-crazed as that would-be usurper. “For many millennia the Authority has ruled the kingdom of heaven with absolute control,” says one angel to another in a delicately animated sequence of diaphanous spirits in a starry skyscape. “He named himself the Creator, the Father, the Almighty.
Unfortunately, though, the action sequences are all sizzle and no steak. Will unleashes his subtle knife for a fight to the death with armoured polar bear Iorek Byrnison, but it comes to nothing. Drones fly overhead but there is no battle. Even the crash landing leaves Lord Asriel with his inexcusable pony tail unruffled.
The CGI is superlative, though. I really do believe that an armoured polar bear is prowling the decks of a fishing trawler and that Will Parry’s miraculous blade can cut through sky to take us to other worlds.
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