The Princess Review

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The idea of subverting story tropes in order to create something new and compelling isn't exactly novel, but it's also not always a recipe for failure. Putting a new spin on the idea of a princess who needs to be rescued and instead having her do her own rescuing is an idea that might have worked brilliantly. Unfortunately, all that's left is The Princess, a flat, empty actioner that's short on everything, from character development to story to even the action it ostensibly promises.

This is not a movie that should be taken seriously by anyone at any time. It manages to get almost everything wrong in its execution, and it almost seems to revel in its laziness. There may have been a better movie hiding in the dregs of this script, but there was no attempt to try and find it.

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Joey King, who has turned in great performances before (particularly in The Act), plays the unnamed heroine of the story, a princess who is more than she appears. Far from being a damsel in distress, this princess can actually kick some butt (much to the chagrin of her father, the unnamed King). The titular royal is being held captive before being forced to marry a stock villain (played by Dominic Cooper, who is entirely wasted in this movie). Her mission is clear, escape the tower where she is being held captive, kill her suitor, and free her kingdom.

Don't go looking for anything deeper than that. The Princess delivers exactly what it promises without any attempt to dig any deeper. Not that there's much to dig into here: the heroes are good and the villains are bad, like cartoonishly bad. Cooper's villain, Julius, wants to force the princess to marry him because he wants