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#THE BOOK OF LIFE CAST SERIES#
Trevorrow shoots the various pieces of the contraptions as though they were co-stars who refused to appear in shots together, turning the whole thing into a series of closeups that only create chaos where he probably intends suspense about what the machine will ultimately do.
#THE BOOK OF LIFE CAST FULL#
When one of them is set off, you want to see the device’s components and its full scope and the way all of the pieces fit together and then watch it do its thing. That said, Trevorrow is probably not the guy you want tackling something like Book of Henry, because the best possible version of it - a film I’m not sure could possibly exist - would require very precise control of tone and an imaginative eye for capturing, say, Henry’s various devices. That Henry is as bad as it is was a surprise to me, at least. I didn’t hate either Colin Trevorrow’s breakthrough feature, Safety Not Guaranteed, or his mega-hit Jurassic World, though I found both very, very bland, their filmmaking mostly notable for its competence, rather than its spark.
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#THE BOOK OF LIFE CAST MOVIE#
3) This movie was directed by the guy who made Jurassic World and is slated to direct Star Wars Episode IX Also, he’s a would-be genius inventor of Rube Goldberg-style devices, though the movie struggles to make this fit within the story. (The fatal flaw of this movie is that nothing in it feels like it’s happening to real people - it’s a movie that feels at all turns like it was made by people who only understand humanity from watching other movies.)Īnyway, Henry has over $600,000 in a checking account from playing the stock market, and we don’t find out about it until about midway through the movie. It’s really hard to track how anybody feels about him, because he doesn’t feel like a real person. In one scene, he’s the odd one out at school.
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He’s a collection of weird odds and ends that are meant to suggest a character. Weren’t things just fine before? 2) Henry is also apparently a financial genius and successful inventor of Rube Goldberg contraptions Henry’s family relies on his financial genius. There don’t seem to be any adverse consequences to the arrangement the family has, which means that this isn’t a story, and when the movie tries to turn it into one - by having Susan slowly come to realize her son is just a child - it feels like it comes out of nowhere. Yet Susan seems to run a pretty tight ship around her house. He does her finances! And makes sure she goes to bed instead of staying up late playing video games! This is probably the only feel-good family comedy you’ll see this year that features an Alfred Hitchcock-inspired subplot about child abuse.Īnyway, if the movie has a central story, it’s probably about Susan ( Naomi Watts) and her oldest son, Henry ( Jaeden Lieberher), who at times seems to parent her. And every other scene features a new bit of story from what seems like another movie entirely. The dialogue is always, always quirky for no good reason. All of the characters are cranked up to 15. 1) A mother lets her 12-year-old son plan out her lifeĪt all times, The Book of Henry feels like a screenwriting exercise gone horribly wrong. “Hey, I like some of those actors,” you might think, “Maybe I’ll check it out.” And then, one hour and 45 minutes later, you, too, will be changed.īut for those of you who don’t want to risk being cursed by a well-meaning but fatally misguided bit of dramedy dreck that feels like a 1997 throwback in all the worst ways, well, I’m going to tell you about 11 things that happen in The Book of Henry, getting more spoiler-iffic along the way. The ideal condition for seeing this movie is probably staying up way too late and seeing its description float by you on cable. Just telling you that this movie is bad might be too much knowledge. Honestly, I may have told you too much already. I only saw it because a friend saw it, and when I asked him to explain it to me, he said, “Dude, you just have to see it.” So I went, and it changed me, on some cellular level. Vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark