Beautiful Creatures: Could Be Better

This is a movie for late teens really since itthe classic love story with supernatural elements that has become so popular these days. True, there are no vampires here but there are witches and wizards though in this story the term Casters is used.
Ethan Wate (Alden Ehrenreich) lives in Gatlin, a small town full of superstitious, narrow-minded people where nothing interesting ever happens until the day Lena Duchannes (Alice Englert) arrives and the entire school and town show rejection toward Lena just because she is the only known relative of the old and reclusive Macon Ravenwood (Jeremy Irons), but Ethan is different from the other villagers and falls in love with Lena who corresponds him. What Ethan does not know is that Lena is indeed a witch and that hse has returned to Gatlin for a reason: she has the power to lead all Casters to the conquest of all Earth. That and many other secrets are intertwined with Ethan and Lena's newfound love including Lena´s mother´s secret identity and Ethan and Lena´s concealed past.
Despite its problems: only above average acting and plot, the story holds up especially for the cleverness shown in some elements aand the intervention of Irons as Macon and the great Emma Thomson as Serafine, the dark witch that haunts Lena. How Serafine and Macon are related, why Serafine is after Lena and why Lena has to be under Macon's tutelage are all those questions which will be answered in  the film.
There are ups and downs in this movie, though, I'd say it is still a consistent product. Will there be a sequel? Well, I don´t know about that but sure it´s not another Twilight.
Three stars out of five for this one.





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