Earlier this year, the site COLLIDER ran an article entitled 10 Under-Appreciated Fantasy Movies Worth A Second Look. One of them was a freaky little flick from 2009... :-)

https://collider.com/fantasy-movies-worth-a-second-look/

The key observations -- "not popular among fans of the books... [but has] a sense of identity often missing from most other movies like it... an impotent lead... but an under-appreciated performance from John C. Reilly."

I'd go along with all of the above! :-)