A breakdown of The Boy - no, not the one you are thinking of
The Good:
- David Morse and Rainn Wilson are both very good in this movie
- This film has atmosphere for days, and it serves the movie well
- There is some startling and effective imagery scattered throughout
- The Boy has a pretty cool poster
The Bad:
- While I understand why it is classified as horror, I would not consider it a horror movie
- This movie is slow - apparently trying to be meditative and instead being soporific
- Far too much of the plot doesn't really go anywhere interesting
- Much of this film rests on lead child actor Jared Breeze, and his is not the most compelling performance
The Ugly:
- Though I haven't seen it, I am willing to bet the 2016 movie of the same title is a better film
- Several scenes are outright tedious and none of them are short
- It's bad when your movie is a reasonable 105 minutes and still feels like it needed to be edited down
- The poster, while cool, sells a very different movie then the one you get
- I would only recommend this to someone who is either pretentious or I disliked
3 out of 10
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