Finally a good Netflix blockbuster! How much is Millie Bobby Brown in The Lady and the Dragon worth?

What is it about?

A faithful young girl agrees to marry a handsome prince. But he discovers that he has been chosen as a sacrifice to pay off an old debt. Trapped in a cave, he must face a fiery dragon. He now only relies on his intelligence and courage to hope to get out of this situation…

The Lady and the Dragon, written by Dan Mazzeu and directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo

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If the introduction of Millie Bobby Brown is anything to go by, she was revealed in 2016 for her character Eleven, the heroine of the phenomenon TV series Stranger Things, which is currently filming its fifth season. In The Lady and the Dragon, she plays Elodi, a young woman betrothed to a prince.

Opposite him, we find some familiar faces, such as Ray Winstone (Sexual Beast, Gone) who plays the father, Angela Bassett (Black Panther, Boys ‘n’ Hat) to the caring stepmother Nick Robinson (The Maid, Love). , Simon) as a prince like nobody’s business and finally Robin Wright (House of Cards, Forrest Gump) as the unscrupulous queen.

Is it worth checking out?

Forget big weddings and famous happy endings between princes and princesses. It’s a different kind of tale to offer The Lady and the Dragon. A tale anchored in its own time that plays with archetypes to make them fly. Here, the “damsel in distress” has no choice but to roll up her sleeves to save herself.

The film is based on a novel. Mrs, written by Evelyn Skye. Before its release, the platform acquired the rights to adapt the film.

The plot is part of the coming-of-age stories, with a feminist message as a result to remind those who are not yet up to date that the princess is no longer confined to her role-playing vase.

And who better than Millie Bobby Brown, the Gen Z star who became a badass figure thanks to her character in Stranger Things, to embody that modernity? Against all odds, The Lady and the Dragon is a good blockbuster made Netflix. The film, honest and generous, does not skimp on the spectacular and has the good taste of not being locked into a very childish world.

The feature film obviously remains accessible to the general public, but lends itself to some welcome touches of darkness. This tone, darker than we imagined, is due to its director, who is a Spaniard Juan Carlos FresnadilloBest known for the horror film 28 Weeks Later.

Millie Bobby Brown, convincing as the resilient princess, spends most of the film alone, facing a digital creature whose design is ingenious. It was created by Patrick Tatopoulos, who owes many movie monsters to everything from Roland Emmerich’s Godzilla to the werewolves of the underworld.

If it doesn’t shine with its subtleties or invent anything, Lady and the Dragon remains an enjoyable entertainment that combines many genres – action, family drama, fantasy and horror – and belongs to the list of successful blockbusters of the platform.

The Lady and the Dragon is available on Netflix.