Everything good in this movie is down to the acting ability and character of the child actor (Jackson A. Dunne who plays the character Brandon/Brightburn and the likeability of Elizabeth Banks who plays his mother. Its a really well made movie and just very absorbing. Very very good movie and great special effects. Terrific.
Brightburn
2019
Action / Drama / Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi
Brightburn
2019
Action / Drama / Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi
Plot summary
After a difficult struggle with fertility, Tori Breyer's dreams of motherhood come true with the arrival of a mysterious baby boy. Brandon appears to be everything Tori and her husband, Kyle, ever wanted -- bright, talented and curious about the world. But as Brandon nears puberty, powerful darkness manifests within him, and Tori becomes consumed by terrible doubts about her son. Once Brandon begins to act on his twisted urges, those closest to him find themselves in grave danger.
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Terrific due to the child lead
Gory superhero twist
BRIGHTBURN is a horror genre twist on the superhero genre that can basically be described as a dark version of SUPERMAN. The extremely light plot sees a baby delivered to Earth in a meteorite and brought up by a childless couple; a few years later it transpires he's evil. I found this one severely lacking in terms of depth and narrative intrigue; it's a literal take-it-as-it-is kind of story in which the cast is ill-serviced by the shallow material. Saying that, the film benefits from solid direction and decent effects; there are also a string of surprisingly graphic set-pieces which help to retain the viewer's attention.
Bleak and Pessimist
Sometimes we watch a film that does not end the way we want (or expect). "Brightburn" is one of those films. The story begins almost as a rip-off "Smallville", with a boy from another planet raised by farmers in Brightburn, Kansas. However when adolescence comes, the powerful boy turns into an evil creature instead of a conventional hero. And from this moment on, he becomes a cruel being incapable to be destroyed and the film has a bleak, pessimist and unpleasant conclusion. Is "Brightburn" a bad movie? No, but probably will not please many viewers. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "Brightburn - Filho das Trevas" ("Brightburn - Son of the Shadows")