It’s slickly directed by Lars Klevberg and far too silly to be taken at all seriously. But if you do, then you’ll think twice about ever climbing into a driverless car.īrightburn is also more of a gory slasher picture than a horror movie, and also thoroughly daft, but deftly done. My tip is to see it as an extended metaphor for the start of a boy’s adolescence, a diabolic take on Harry Enfield’s Kevin the Teenager. Once I started looking at it that way, I rather enjoyed it.Įlizabeth Banks and David Denman star as Tori and Kyle Breyer, who, at the start of the film, are desperately trying to conceive when the earth moves, all too literally.Ī spacecraft has landed next to the childless couple’s farm in Kansas, carrying a baby boy. They call him Brandon and raise him as their own, with Tori in particular seeing him as a gift from heaven.Ī decade later, however, Brandon (Jackson A. Dunn) is beginning to remind his parents of his alien roots. If you can see beyond Harry Enfield, Brightburn is a twist on Superman, about a creature in human form blessed with superhuman strength, but using it to damage rather than save humanity.ĭavid Yarovesky directs, working from a script by cousins Brian and Mark Gunn, and he is well served by his cast. ![]() In particular, it’s good to be reminded that Banks has more strings to her bow than goofball comedy. ![]() On the other hand, there were at least ten moments when I laughed and probably shouldn’t have.
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