So overall this is a kid movie??? Shit,I buy dy the ticket!!! I thought it would be like LOTR but since the reviews not very good,I think I won't make a high expectation dy,the movie only 2 hours rite??

Well,just finished watching this movie today....From the movie,I think the movie is quite good and pretty nice...the storyline developed nice enough but not the best I presume. Well,if you all want to see some action packed movie,then I don't think it will be nice movie,this movie is nice because of its storyline and remember this is the first episode of the movie,dun expect much like what you all mentions as climax!!! From my POV,this film is like LOTR:FOTR,a story for development to the climax of the trilogy!!! Compare to Narnia and Harry Potter,I think this film is quite good already,sorry that I say bad to the Narnia and Harry Potter's fan,hope can forgive me Some more,Blue Dakota Richards the lead actress of this movie,I think her acting is nice compare to the Narnia children's actor & actress.

P/S : At first I also disappointed with the ending but after I done some research on net,then I understand why the ending should be like this.....

On October 9, 2007, Weitz revealed that the final three chapters from The Golden Compass have been moved to potential sequel The Subtle Knife to provide "the most promising conclusion to the first film and the best possible beginning to the second."Author Pullman has publicly supported these changes saying that "every film has to make changes to the story that the original book tells - not to change the outcome, but to make it fit the dimensions and the medium of film.

Taking from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Compass_%28film%29.

Seems like all also hate this movie,as I say this is a first film of the trilogy,where got so many actions for you all to see...and rmb this films is based on kid novel like narnia and harry potter...is completely different from the LOTR which is an adult novel...I quite enjoy this movie compare to harry and narnia,if got 2nd episode i sure go and watch it....

Pls do more research before you say it is obvious will be a sequel...the producer already mentioned the sequel will be depending on financial success of GC.