Review of Honey Boy (2019) by Netflic — 11 Nov 2019

This movie is a self-serving experiment when an actor and a script writer Shia Labeouf is court-marshaled into a rehab and writes a script about his own childhood and his abusive father. In his script Shia has a name of Otis who is played by Oscar-nominated Lucas Hedges when Otis is in his twenties and a rising star Noah Jupe who plays 12-year old Otis. The interesting part is that Shia plays his own father, ex-con, ex-rodeo clown, ex-sex offender and many other exes. I assume it must be therapeutic for him.

I enjoyed Noah's performance but that was the only part of the movie that I really liked. The script was way too twisted from fragments of the rehab's present, flashes from childhood years and recent past. I have a feeling that Shia inherited self-pity from his father.

I am glad that he managed to make it after all these years with a jerk of a father. Overall the movie did not make a great impression on me.