A movie with two halves. The first part is set in the room. Starts with a bond which is pretty average. The boy is slightly annoying at times. This is the problem on relying on a child actor. He does a good job overall but sometimes I laughed when I shouldn't have. Like when he's unrolled from the carpet and shouts 'I hate you.' That was great comedic timing. Or when he says 'room isn't smelly, only when you fart.' Fine deadpan. It's and example of bad dialogue breaking the style. Wasn't exactly hard to stick to the rigid style either, it had about 3 rules. The child is also very flat as a character. He either moans or talks nonsense. He doesn't have the subtle moods of a child like sulking, tiredness or giggling etc.. but he either shouts like an angry loon, acts very scared or is ridiculously inquisitive. It's very in your face and unnatural all of the time. His imagination is never used for fun or play but for the purpose to contrast the situation time and time again. It's full of emotional setups and no natural feel.
The movie gets better as the man enters the story. The tension is good and it's more interesting to watch. It even feels more real. The first half end with an escape. It's really well made. Very emotional. A peak. I was optimistic. So far it's just about average. Second half. Drawn out drama with illogical emotional decisions for the sake of it. Every short scene more or less ends with something emotional happening to try and be deep. There is more to drama than an argument or something bad happening.
Character interaction is always for effect and never real. There is no realism in this movie. The flat character of the boy becomes even more flat as be enters the hollywood cliché of alien discovering the environment. Completely boring, predictable and with bad dialogue. They end by visiting the now empty room. The boy says something like 'this isn't room because it's open. ' How cheesy and dumb is that?
Review by moonkodiBlockedParentSpoilers2016-12-21T05:15:09Z
A movie with two halves.
The first part is set in the room. Starts with a bond which is pretty average. The boy is slightly annoying at times. This is the problem on relying on a child actor. He does a good job overall but sometimes I laughed when I shouldn't have. Like when he's unrolled from the carpet and shouts 'I hate you.' That was great comedic timing. Or when he says 'room isn't smelly, only when you fart.' Fine deadpan. It's and example of bad dialogue breaking the style. Wasn't exactly hard to stick to the rigid style either, it had about 3 rules. The child is also very flat as a character. He either moans or talks nonsense. He doesn't have the subtle moods of a child like sulking, tiredness or giggling etc.. but he either shouts like an angry loon, acts very scared or is ridiculously inquisitive. It's very in your face and unnatural all of the time. His imagination is never used for fun or play but for the purpose to contrast the situation time and time again. It's full of emotional setups and no natural feel.
The movie gets better as the man enters the story. The tension is good and it's more interesting to watch. It even feels more real. The first half end with an escape. It's really well made. Very emotional. A peak. I was optimistic. So far it's just about average.
Second half.
Drawn out drama with illogical emotional decisions for the sake of it. Every short scene more or less ends with something emotional happening to try and be deep. There is more to drama than an argument or something bad happening.
Character interaction is always for effect and never real. There is no realism in this movie. The flat character of the boy becomes even more flat as be enters the hollywood cliché of alien discovering the environment. Completely boring, predictable and with bad dialogue. They end by visiting the now empty room. The boy says something like 'this isn't room because it's open. ' How cheesy and dumb is that?
The ultimate chick flick.