Movie review: 'The Pale Blue Eye' serves as a dark yet dull murder mystery

Movie review: 'The Pale Blue Eye' serves as a dark yet dull murder mystery

Netflix’s first original movie of the year, released Friday, comes in the form of a period piece mystery thriller titled “The Pale Blue Eye.” Written and directed by Scott Cooper and based on Louis Bayard’s 2003 novel of the same name, “The Pale Blue Eye” thrusts viewers into 1830s West Point, New York, where retired veteran detective Augustus Landor (Christian Bale) investigates a series of murders at the United States Military Academy with the help of a young military cadet, Edgar Allan Poe (Harry Melling).

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