Completely forgot about this but was waiting for it. Guess they decided not to do any marketing or I completely missed it. I am a bit surprised they decided to release a 100M+ film during the pandemic seeing as all the other films are not releasing. I guess cinemas are open in a number of countries but still.
A nice enough film but honestly some parts of it seem to work only as a first glimpse of larger stories in a sequel, I'm talking about the alien natives here especially.
The final fight and I assume the death of Mayor Prentiss seemed a bit silly too. He just said your noise is your power tricking Todd and now he is going to fall the essentially the same trick? (He fell for it once before with Ben too.)
I also wonder if they just killed Todd's family only to avoid the awkward moment in a possible sequel when they get executed like the rest of Prentisstown.
I think the cast was good enough. Daisy and Tom can hold it together throughout despite not being A+ actors in all honesty. To be honest, it does feel like Tom Holland was only cast because of his acting in the Spiderman films as an awkward teen which works pretty well.
All in all, it's a good film to see (probably once, perhaps a second-time years later with a couple of friends/family) but nothing worthy of an Oscar. And as said before, it lost so much money (unless it gets re-released in other countries when cinemas open there, plus digital/physical sales down the road) that I doubt they are going to greenlight a sequel. Everybody seems to say the books are different and better. I'll just remind people that this is an adaptation and sometimes having differences can be good, sometimes even improves on the source material (though not always). I'll probably read the books someday as I'm curious how the series goes on (I can't believe this is the whole story).
Review by NiquarlBlockedParent2021-04-25T23:00:53Z
Completely forgot about this but was waiting for it. Guess they decided not to do any marketing or I completely missed it. I am a bit surprised they decided to release a 100M+ film during the pandemic seeing as all the other films are not releasing. I guess cinemas are open in a number of countries but still.
A nice enough film but honestly some parts of it seem to work only as a first glimpse of larger stories in a sequel, I'm talking about the alien natives here especially.
The final fight and I assume the death of Mayor Prentiss seemed a bit silly too. He just said your noise is your power tricking Todd and now he is going to fall the essentially the same trick? (He fell for it once before with Ben too.)
I also wonder if they just killed Todd's family only to avoid the awkward moment in a possible sequel when they get executed like the rest of Prentisstown.
I think the cast was good enough. Daisy and Tom can hold it together throughout despite not being A+ actors in all honesty. To be honest, it does feel like Tom Holland was only cast because of his acting in the Spiderman films as an awkward teen which works pretty well.
All in all, it's a good film to see (probably once, perhaps a second-time years later with a couple of friends/family) but nothing worthy of an Oscar. And as said before, it lost so much money (unless it gets re-released in other countries when cinemas open there, plus digital/physical sales down the road) that I doubt they are going to greenlight a sequel. Everybody seems to say the books are different and better. I'll just remind people that this is an adaptation and sometimes having differences can be good, sometimes even improves on the source material (though not always). I'll probably read the books someday as I'm curious how the series goes on (I can't believe this is the whole story).