The golden Compass, directed by Chris Weitz is a fantasy film based on the novel of Philip Pulman, it is the first of three parts of the Dark Materials' book series and was released in 2007. The main characters in this story are played by Dakota Blue Richards, Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig.
The story begins with Lyra (Dakota Blue) who is a girl living in the Jordan College with her uncle Lord Asriel(Daniel Craig). She had been learn about "Dust" because of her uncle and the things he usually said. On the other hand, Mrs. Coulter (Nicole Kidman) who is the Magisterium leader, tries to dominate the world by changing and hidding the truth about the "Dust", the Daemon's children and the Lyra's Golden Compass.
When is discovered the Magisterium's bad intention, as well as the kidnapping of one of the Lyra's friend, the situation becomes a battle between the "Gyptians" and the Magisterium. Lyra gets help from a lot of parts of the world, including a Bear King, and attains to save her friends and many other children from Coulter, obviously, after many hard battles.
This film is not a complete story, many doubts rising across the movie, and the main question is: What's the next step? The actors made a good work but it is not great, or maybe the incomplete story hides their real job.
The golden compass is a movie that only shows some good individually jobs, but the general story is very poor. The truth is that locations are fantastic, special effects are also incredible, but there is something which doesn´t let the movie to be a good option for watching.