Review of Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011) by Maya B — 10 Dec 2012

This story of a boy hanging onto the memory of his father while being racked with guilt for neglecting him at the worst time starts off reasonably, but ,the experience soon changes to one of watching paint dry while an annoying 9 year old boy whines in your ear.

There is no denying that the events of 9/11 where full of sadness and extreme tragedy, but this movie actually attempts to capture a piece of that misery through a convoluted and uninteresting story. At the most all it managed to do was make me feel foolish for having watched it, because it was excruciatingly dull to the end.

The scenes of Oscar Schell (Thomas Thorn) and his card board mother played by Sandra Bullock where sometimes silly but mostly labored and boring.