First of all, this is NOT something you generally think of when you think of Scorsese directing. Shutter Island, Cape Fear...sure, Good Fellas, or The Aviator...ok. But this is something completely different, and utterly fantastic. It was both visually stunning and wonderfully acted...and I guess to his credit, well directed.
The story is about a Clock Maker's son, Hugo Cabret (Asa Butterfield), who is orphaned and is adopted by his drunkard of an uncle, who also works with clocks. Hugo is forced to ensure the clockworks at the railway station are always functioning, while is uncle is off getting drunk.
Before his death, Hugo and his father are working on a project to reconstruct a clockwork automaton that his father found in a museum. Unfortunately, his father died before they completed it and Hugo views it as a mission to complete the work in honour of his father.
In an effort to complete this quest, hugo must steal parts from a railway station shop keeper, Georges Méliès (Ben Kingsley). The same Georges Méliès who made the film: A Trip to the Moon, among many others. Through his interactions with Mr Méliès, he meets his young neice, Isabelle Méliès (Chloë Grace Moretz) and have various adventures as they try to evade capture by Station Inspector (Sacha Baron Cohen) and also try to solve the mystery of the Automaton and its connection with Mr. Méliès.
This was a wonderful, feel good movie that was not treacly at all.
5/5
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