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Where do I even begin? Here, we have a movie based around a boy who's father died on 9/11. His story seemed compelling enough when viewing the trailer for the movie - a boy on a quest to find something his dead father left for him to find in the city.
However, this trailer was entirely misleading, as that is not what happens.
Instead, what we (as an audience) experience is quite possibly the most revolting, hypocritical, arrogant, egotistical, insulting, annoying excuse of a child I have ever laid my eyes on. From telling his mother she should have died in the attacks, to slapping her awake at night on the face, to swearing insults at random people, to talking to himself, to badgering, to referring to 9/11 as the "Worst Day", we simply have an entire recipe of what we were brought up not to be like from our own parents.
Quit possibly the worst arch in the dull, plot-less, and entirely expected storyline (you can tell where the storyline is going minutes ahead of time) is the boys cruel and decisive way of holding back 6 integral phone messages from his father, to his mother, and telling her no one called, and keeping them to himself. The messages, taken within the Trade Center by his father during the attacks were clearly of incredible significance both in the film, and to the emotional backdrop of the story. Instead, they're used to hurt, and to show the boys complete selfishness and arrogance, as well as ignorance, towards others. Words cannot express how much I wanted to get up and leave the theater as I watched this with my girlfriend, who somehow, got the movie, and cried her way through it.
Looking at the movie through NON-mystified eyes, the movie has absolutely no closing value, and no joie de vivre. It's story arch is bland, and quite frankly, infuriating. In the end, you are disappointed yet again when the boy finds out nothing from his father was left for him in his hunt to find something.... anything. And instead of discovering what the key was for (his main clue as to his father leaving something for him) you find out it belonged to another man, and you don't even find out it's use or value. You then find out that his grandfather never talks, and never truly admits to being his grandfather. You find out that the boy needs a damn tambourine in order to go anywhere without being nervous, and that when he is nervous, he screams and belittles all around him.
I could go on and on and on and on about how absolutely terrible this movie is in the eyes of someone who watches a movie for a deeper storyline, but instead, all I can tell you is that for someone without the ability to dive functionally into a backstory of a movie within their mind, this movie is great.
Unfortunately, for the rest of us, it's a horrible and sickening tale of complete scuzz.
score 1/10
steve-61-293483 1 February 2012
Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw2559112/ |
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