Customer Ratings & Reviews

Golden Compass is overall a Good Fantasy Adventure Movie, with quite good acting. It is almost but not quite a Family Friendly film with the plot following the young girl Lyra and her various adventures discovering the truth about Dust with a capital D, with her Daemon Pantalaimon at her side and with the aid of the Golden Compass. A journey that takes you throughout her imaginative world, where the souls of every person manifest as talking animal familiars (Daemons), vehicles run on something other than electricity, and there are long-lived witches and gruff warrior polar bears to ally with. However, the movie does have some scenes of violence that could be over the top for young children. Such as a polar bear being brutally mauled to death. And also the theme of kidnapping and experimentation on children is also prominent in the plot. Unfortunately the ending is not very conclusive, leaving off where a sequel should take over, but it seems very unlikely a sequel shall ever be made. I would recommend this film to fans of Fantasy Adventure movies, especially the Blu-ray version as the audio quality is great on it.

very good special effects the story is decent but confusing sum good action too this ended with a cliffhanger but there isin't a sequal

I thought the movie was great. it did not make much money but worth the view. Young actors were superb.

Everything was good for the rating given this movie. My family enjoyed the movie. They watched it twice in the same day.

My daughter really wanted this movie. It was hard to locate. Great movie at a great price!

My girls love this movie, they will watch it over and over. I have enjoyed watching it also.

Good movie for the kids on movie night. Very entertaining.

Great visuals and fair amount of action, really enjoyable!

kids loved it both a boy and a girl no complaining of over this one

I would recomend this movie for families with kids all ages

Love the movie, they should have made a sequel! Too bad!

I love Nicole Kidman in this movie, she made the movie.

What a fantastic movie and a surprise to find in store! This isn't as epic or grand in scale as The Lord of the Rings but is phenomenal in its own right. I watched this having never heard or read any Phillip Pullman books, but I immediately purchased the entire trilogy after watching this movie. It strikes a perfect chord between thought and action. The visuals are a treat in and of themselves! A great movie to watch with the family and discuss afterwards.

Having read the book as well as having seen this movie, I loved the richness of the scenes, and how the main character was portrayed. The only drawback was that they leave you waiting for the next installment of the movie. This movie followed fairly closely to the book. I enjoyed how it was brought to the screen, almost as I had imagined it to be based on the book. It’s a delight to watch.

I really liked the movie. The acting is good. The new star is definitely rising. Just felt that something was missing from the story. I would see the film if only for some of the performances. The effects were top notch.

This movie was supposed to be the first of a trilogy, but to my knowledge they are not making the last two movies in this series yet. Still a pretty entertaining movie, though.

The movie was great, full of fantasy and magic. A parallel universe to ours, it's an overall great family film.