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This is the type of movie I would have rushed to see when I was in high school. I went to check it out with a friend of mine that I haven't seen a movie with in years. We always saw films together but the last one we saw was Now You See Me. So Brightburn came up and it had a high school nostalgia feel to it so we checked it out. Despite it hitting the marks that were expected, there is nothing really present here in the film to grab the viewer and be memorable.
Take the story of Superman and add a horror spin to it. Instead of being a hero for the people, he has an internal sense to destroy. Interesting take on a "classic" origin story. Unfortunately the filmmakers don't go far enough with it to truly make the horror aspect stick. There are a few scenes of gore that park some creativity, but not enough in my opinion.
Elizabeth Banks plays the mother, someone who will love her "son" undyingly. No matter what happens, he is her son. One would think that she would go to some extreme lengths to protect him, possibly a Rosemary's Baby type ending, but we don't get that. Fine, no big deal, but that would have really added a bit more of a gruelling sense of depression to it.
A lot of the final act is Man of Steel territory. The kid flies super fast through things, into people, etc. That is a little disappointing because it seems lazy. The more interesting use of his "skills" involve terrorizing someone in a vehicle in the middle of the road at night. Good use of horror tension in that scene.
It tries to add more of a troubled family dynamic, but it doesn't feel natural. At times I wondered where the hell the father was during some of the more creepier scenes, sequences that he should be there but it's only the mother. A cool looking mask helps bring a bit more evil comic book character vibes that I hoped the film would drench itself in. Brightburn is a tad predictable with some gore elements that don't add up to a full fledged entertaining film.
Brightburn
This is the type of movie I would have rushed to see when I was in high school. I went to check it out with a friend of mine that I haven't seen a movie with in years. We always saw films together but the last one we saw was Now You See Me. So Brightburn came up and it had a high school nostalgia feel to it so we checked it out. Despite it hitting the marks that were expected, there is nothing really present here in the film to grab the viewer and be memorable.
Take the story of Superman and add a horror spin to it. Instead of being a hero for the people, he has an internal sense to destroy. Interesting take on a "classic" origin story. Unfortunately the filmmakers don't go far enough with it to truly make the horror aspect stick. There are a few scenes of gore that park some creativity, but not enough in my opinion.
Elizabeth Banks plays the mother, someone who will love her "son" undyingly. No matter what happens, he is her son. One would think that she would go to some extreme lengths to protect him, possibly a Rosemary's Baby type ending, but we don't get that. Fine, no big deal, but that would have really added a bit more of a gruelling sense of depression to it.
A lot of the final act is Man of Steel territory. The kid flies super fast through things, into people, etc. That is a little disappointing because it seems lazy. The more interesting use of his "skills" involve terrorizing someone in a vehicle in the middle of the road at night. Good use of horror tension in that scene.
It tries to add more of a troubled family dynamic, but it doesn't feel natural. At times I wondered where the hell the father was during some of the more creepier scenes, sequences that he should be there but it's only the mother. A cool looking mask helps bring a bit more evil comic book character vibes that I hoped the film would drench itself in. Brightburn is a tad predictable with some gore elements that don't add up to a full fledged entertaining film.