Review – Ladyhawke

This started out with a really good concept, at least for a fantasy movie. A knight (Rutger Hauer) and his lady fair (Michelle Pfeiffer) suffer a curse in which she becomes a hawk during the day and he transforms into a wolf at night. Which of course puts quite a cramp in their relationship. Unfortunately, director Richard Donner does nothing useful with the premise. The couple befriends a ne’er-do-well (Matthew Broderick), and the trio goes on to have a series of mediocre adventures. Even if they’d gotten a good story going, the production would still have been assassinated by a perfectly dreadful score by Alan Parsons. So perhaps it’s for the best that it turned out to be as boring as it was. Mildly amusing