IMDb plot summary: What if a child from another world crash-landed on Earth, but instead of becoming a hero to mankind, he proved to be something far more sinister?
Directed by David Yaroveksy. Starring Elizabeth Banks, David Denman, Jackson A. Dunn, and Abraham Clinkscales.
OOOF. So this is NOT good. And it's sad, because it's such a great premise and falls off the deep end so quickly. It's not at all clear why Brandon goes evil in the first place -- is he possessed? Was he always a psychopath? We never see him as a "normal child," so we have no idea. It tries to hinge its scariness on the sudden shift on this child's behavior, but since we never saw the before, the after isn't nearly as haunting. The scary scenes are shot so dramatically that I couldn't help but giggle at nearly every moment I think was supposed to be unsettling. The only pieces of this I can say really worked were the premise of the movie overall and the one person who got murdered by flying up into the atmosphere. That was a cool, weird scene, and I wish the movie had been smart enough to make the rest of the scenes that purposefully weird.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Brightburn < The Italian Job (2003)
Brightburn < Green Book
Brightburn < The Tribe
Brightburn < Celebrity
Brightburn > The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
Brightburn > Devil
Brightburn < Free Willy
Brightburn > The Notebook
Brightburn > Holy Motors
Brightburn > Solaris (1972)
Brightburn > Morvern Callar
Final spot: #2996 out of 3167.
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