While an embargo prevent us putting up our full review until tomorrow morning, we can tell you that The Golden Compass is not everything we dreamed it would and could be. But you can start to make up your own mind by watching a new snippet from the movie. Yahoo Movies has the first five minutes of Chris Weitz' take on Philip Pullman's novel, here.
You don't get a huge amount of action from the clip, mainly some explanatory pre-amble and an intro for Daniel Craig's Lord Asriel, but you can get a feel for Weitz' visuals. Then you can judge the full film for yourself from tomorrow.