The Portable Door

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The Portable Door

2023

1h 56m

Fantasy

Adventure

Comedy

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The movie centers on Paul Carpenter (Patrick Gibson) and Sophie Pettingel (Sophie Wilde), lowly, put-upon interns who begin working at the mysterious London firm J.W. Wells & Co., and become increasingly aware that their employers are anything but conventional. Charismatic villains Humphrey Wells (Christoph Waltz), the CEO of the company, and middle manager Dennis Tanner (Sam Neill) are disrupting the world of magic by bringing modern corporate strategy to ancient magical practices, and Paul and Sophie discover the true agenda of the vast corporation.

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Randy Myers

San Jose Mercury News

04/12/2023

2/4

There’s fun afoot, but at nearly two hours, this one just wanders, taking forever to capitalize on that portable door.

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Robbie Collin

Daily Telegraph (UK)

04/07/2023

4/5

There’s ramshackle funhouse charm to spare here, and while the plot occasionally trips over the odd loose floorboard, the fun ideas and game performances soon pick it back up.

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Phil Hoad

Guardian

04/03/2023

3/5

If the tension flickers on and off... The Portable Door never entirely loses its edge, thanks largely to an irascible Neill as Wells’s right-hand man, and a sharp-tongued sensibility reminiscent of Roald Dahl.

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Sebastian Zavala Kahn

Me gusta el cine

10/02/2023

3.5/5

Performances are all competent (this is THE year of Sophie Wilde, after all), the visual effects deliver, and in general, “The Portable Door” manages to have a fun and eccentric tone, which ended up charming me. Full review in Spanish.

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Todd Jorgenson

Cinemalogue

07/08/2023

Beneath the visual spectacle of its elaborate funhouse of secrets and sorcery, this fantasy adventure yields only surface-level thrills.

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Jesús Palacios

Fotogramas

06/26/2023

4/5

We've found an absolutely entertaining and intelligent movie where adventure, humor, and underground satire collide... [Full review in Spanish]

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Jill L

@RT78620819 Jul 19

I liked the very beginning (5-10 minutes), then got super bored!! I could not follow the storyline. It picked back up in the last 40 minutes but it was not a great movie. Definitely needed work on plot. Took me about five times to finish this because it was so boring.

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diogo13 T

@Tua_mera Jul 16

A bureaucratic, drawn-out, and utterly soulless fantasy. The film fails to create a minimally interesting or captivating universe, suffocating a potentially ludicrous premise within a confusing and tedious script that wastes Christoph Waltz and Sam Neill.

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Andrew M.

@RT26882008 Jun 21

I haven’t finished it yet so too early to leave a review

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jude H

@RT32930705 Apr 27

This has to be one of the worst films I've ver suffered through. I just do not get British movies at all. No substance and so completely boring.

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Syn C

@Syndicorn Feb 21

Having read the novel well over a decade ago and the subsequent series that it began, I really hoped they would leave it open for another film with the continuing storyline. I was pleased to see that they left plenty of room. That being said, if I didnt know anything about the story or the book this is based on, I know I would have been a bit confused at multiple parts that weren't explained well (and are explained much later on in the book series). If you are unfamiliar entirely with Tom Holt's novels, you may not enjoy this as much as people who have read and are familiar with his work.

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Lemor B

@LemorBoom Jan 6

Starts slow at first i almost sleep on it then i picked up… i love it

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The movie centers on Paul Carpenter (Patrick Gibson) and Sophie Pettingel (Sophie Wilde), lowly, put-upon interns who begin working at the mysterious London firm J.W. Wells & Co., and become increasingly aware that their employers are anything but conventional. Charismatic villains Humphrey Wells (Christoph Waltz), the CEO of the company, and middle manager Dennis Tanner (Sam Neill) are disrupting the world of magic by bringing modern corporate strategy to ancient magical practices, and Paul and Sophie discover the true agenda of the vast corporation.

Director: Jeffrey Walker
Producer: Todd Fellman, Blanca Lista
Screenwriter: Leon Ford
Distributor: MGM+
Production Co: The Jim Henson Company, MEP Capital, Story Bridge Films
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure, Comedy
Original Language: Australian English
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 8, 2023
Runtime: 1h 56m

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