A couple unable to conceive desperate for a child one night while bemoaning this fact a light streak across the skies and buries into their fields, it is a child they raise this child as their own, sounds familiar I am sure it does. The twist in this is this super child is not help to humanity but an evil presence with frightening powers.
Brightburn is an interesting idea that ultimately falls flat, this mesh of superhero movies and the evil child genre that frankly is overdone fails to deliver to the discriminating viewer, those who love B movie thrill will ultimately be satisfied and rush home to give it a 10 on IMDB but this film on that scale deserves no more than a generous 3.
The film is also unnecessarily brutal to live up to its R rating with a fair share of gore, the story is also rushed as they seem to fly by any attempts to develop sympathetic characters and run for the blood and gory kills.
After the baby lands and the parents are all feeling blessed with this child from the skies, one would think any right thinking person would find this weird but never the less we are then treated to grainy super 8mm type footage of a child being happily raised. This child never gets sick or gets hurt does not bleed again one might find this strange but the merry mother is blind. When he turns 12 some switch is turned on it seems and he instantly becomes Damien and again any strange hints are explained away as puberty, funny I can't recall mine being that way?
Someone mentioned a lot of 9 and 10 ratings at IMDB but sadly these ratings do not hold the credibility they once did, a person is entitled to their own opinion you might say 10 I say 3 but sadly paid reviewers and even bot ratings are suspected to be a problem now on that platform.
I wanted to like it but ultimately can't is it worth seeing, sure if you like this kind of stuff but be warned for young kids that might tag along it is gory, the actor Jackson A. Dunn is fine in his role but other than that this is a fail.
A couple unable to conceive desperate for a child one night while bemoaning this fact a light streak across the skies and buries into their fields, it is a child they raise this child as their own, sounds familiar I am sure it does. The twist in this is this super child is not help to humanity but an evil presence with frightening powers.
Brightburn is an interesting idea that ultimately falls flat, this mesh of superhero movies and the evil child genre that frankly is overdone fails to deliver to the discriminating viewer, those who love B movie thrill will ultimately be satisfied and rush home to give it a 10 on IMDB but this film on that scale deserves no more than a generous 3.
The film is also unnecessarily brutal to live up to its R rating with a fair share of gore, the story is also rushed as they seem to fly by any attempts to develop sympathetic characters and run for the blood and gory kills.
After the baby lands and the parents are all feeling blessed with this child from the skies, one would think any right thinking person would find this weird but never the less we are then treated to grainy super 8mm type footage of a child being happily raised. This child never gets sick or gets hurt does not bleed again one might find this strange but the merry mother is blind. When he turns 12 some switch is turned on it seems and he instantly becomes Damien and again any strange hints are explained away as puberty, funny I can't recall mine being that way?
Someone mentioned a lot of 9 and 10 ratings at IMDB but sadly these ratings do not hold the credibility they once did, a person is entitled to their own opinion you might say 10 I say 3 but sadly paid reviewers and even bot ratings are suspected to be a problem now on that platform.
I wanted to like it but ultimately can't is it worth seeing, sure if you like this kind of stuff but be warned for young kids that might tag along it is gory, the actor Jackson A. Dunn is fine in his role but other than that this is a fail.
Passable Drive-In movie, plot holes galore, rushed with no character development, jump scares some tension, perfect as the main feature at your Drive-In double or triple bill.
Jackson A. Dunn is effective in his role.
Passable Drive-In movie, plot holes galore, rushed with no character development, jump scares some tension, perfect as the main feature at your Drive-In double or triple bill.
Jackson A. Dunn is effective in his role.