Review of Brightburn (2019) by Theredsky — 17 Jun 2019
This film was kinda disappointing to me but it was still a good experience. Here are the positives of the film. Elizabeth Banks and David Denman did an amazing job and have great chemistry together. There is a bunch of gore in this film that is incredibly brutal and works very well for what the film is going for.
It makes your entire body cringe in a good way. The tone remains consistent throughout the film. The score for the film is really good also which surprised me. This film also knows how to build tension.
It builds and builds and builds until it pays off most of the time. The concept for this film is one of the most interesting I have ever heard of. The Superman origin story but instead he turns evil instead of good.
That what makes this movie so disappointing. Unfortunately, the film doesn’t do anything beyond the concept. It’s incredibly basic to the point where it can feel dull at times. Another problem is that you never seem to connect with the child actor.
He does an okay job acting but you can’t connect with him. His only motivation is to destroy the world because his spaceship told him to. My main problem is that the last 25 minutes of the film is so dumb.
Everything about it is just awful. The visual effects are terrible and it decides to end the film with Billie Eilish’s Bad Guy. Why end a film this dark and gritty with a pop song. The film then decides to show news montages of the Kid’s destruction.
It made my score from 7.5 drop to 5.5. Overall, Brightburn has an amazing concept with great acting but does a bad job at execution with a terrible ending. I give Brightburn a 5.5/10.
This review of Brightburn (2019) was written by Theredsky on 17 Jun 2019.
Brightburn has generally received mixed reviews.
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