In this intended revisionist take on the traditional fairy tale, Netflix's reliable Millie Bobby Brown plays the damsel, Elodie, who grudgingly agrees to an arranged marriage to save their failing kingdom, but discovers her dashing prince's family has a very different agenda. A lively prologue gives way to a necessarily twee first act that plays into fairy tale movie tropes, including sumptuously mounted castles and vistas, as the underbelly of the seemingly-perfect arranged wedding gets revealed, a much darker and potentially interesting movie emerges but is not fully realised. Millie Bobby Brown takes centre stage at the expense of the other characters and is utterly committed to the role as would be expected, but the second act in particular has rather a lot of wandering around in the dark and the core idea is not perhaps fully developed over the whole of the running time. The dragon is well realised - the molten lava breath is a neat idea - but overall the film would have benefitted from sharper and more developed writing.
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