Midnight Special

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Sharang L Just enough tension and emotion to keep you hooked. And an all-star cast doesn't hurt. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 11/11/24 Full Review Dave B A series of cliches that have been done before with considerably more panache, more engaging characters and better acting (Firestarter, Stranger Things, Hanna, Raising Dion, Looper just to name a few of the recent ones). Plot: Child with miraculous powers pursued by The Gub'mint and (to add some variety) a few religious fruitcakes. The religious types make a few inconsequential cameo appearances before they seem to lose interest and wander off, leaving the standard chased-by-the-Deep State action sequences to get out of the way before the movie grinds to a halt. Performances were universally awful. All the protagonists just looked bored & irritated, as if they were stuck in a laundromat on Sunday afternoon and their phone had gone flat. You had no idea of any of their motivations from the outset, and an hour + later you just didn't care. They seemed to think what they were doing was important enough to shoot people but that was never explained, even in the end. Frankly, I am shocked that the consensus score is as high as it is. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 08/25/24 Full Review David H I'm a sucker for Jeff Nichols films and this didn't disappoint me. Great film. I'd recommend it those that like non fantastical, down to earth Sci Fi movies. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 06/28/24 Full Review Alec C Sometimes, what we think we know about the universe has a habit of biting us in the back! On the run from the government and a cult, a father and his son travel across the American frontier as the boy begins to exhibit powers that boggle the mind, implying that the boy is not from this earth. What makes it such an intriguing story is that we do not fully understand what this alien power is, making it a mystery that leaves us guessing! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 04/03/24 Full Review Jack B Okay, I had to edit this one and give a higher rating than I did initially. I'm a sucker for Sci-Fi and this counts. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/29/24 Full Review Alec B It's an interesting genre piece. Nichols has made an early Spielberg/comic book movie hybrid, only he's successfully gutted it of clunky exposition and heavy handed sentimentality. Proof that these kinds of movies can have that fat trimmed away and still successfully sell their premise and characters. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 12/14/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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