![]() The gruesome special effects will delight gore hounds. Manage to find any real hook, sense of scope, or feel for conflict. Tensions are low even as bloodshed is high, and the movie just never does There's never any question as to which side will win. The conflict is between love and hate, but The film also introduces no real foil for Brandon. Brandon never leaves Brightburn, his KansasĪnd his victims don't range too far from home, either. Who toys with people because he can, because he must. And the boy quickly comes to realize that there's no room for love and normalcy in his life, taking up the mantle of a violently bent Voice telling him to "take the world" (which comes complete with a selection of blood-red hellish lights) is never just a temptation: it'sĪ calling. There'sīetween good and evil, no rationalization or really even a hint of using his powers for anything other than violent mischief. Whatever conflict exists in the movie exists from within, at least for a while, as Brandon discovers who he is and matures into his powers. Increasingly clear that Brandon is in the center of the violent maelstrom engulfing the town. As strange events and grisly murders unfold in his hometown of Brightburn, it becomes Voice that is proving too strong for him to overcome. Shifts: he's growing more unpredictable and more antagonistic towards his parents and everyone in the community. As he begins to change, to realize who he is and what he can do, his behavior ![]() Hidden in the family's barn, calls upon him to use his powers for evil. He quickly discovers he's both all-powerful and immune to physical harm. One day he flings an old lawnmower hundreds of yards,įrustrated when it fails to start. Highly intelligent and something of a social outcast. About a dozen years have passed since the event. Respectively) raise the boy as their own. Kyle and Tori Breyer (David Denman and Elizabeth Banks, The movie is a madhouse of blood, sound, and special effects but feels rather empty, too introductory and lacking a hookīeyond establishing the character in unimaginative, trope-laden ways.Īn infertile couple finds a crash-landed alien baby outside their Kansas farm home. Rock-solid anti-genre, anti-hero concept and done Director David Yarovesky ( The Hive) and Writers Brian and Mark Gunn have taken a Superhuman strength, writing an essay entitled "The Decline of Truth and Justice in the Modern Era." It's the story's anti-Superman sentiment put as One of the film's most interesting shots shows one of Brandon's first victims, a classmate whose hand he crushed with his Dunn), an alien boy whose space ship crash landed in Kansas and who was adopted by loving parents but who listens to a calling to use his powers for evil Reviewed by Martin Liebman, August 21, 2019īrightburn tells the story of a 12-year-old super villain named Brandon (Jackson A.
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