8th August, 2019.
Yes …
And I’m almost ashamed to have to admit this …
I was at my new place of work, today.
Not for a full on shift, mind: just to fill in the initial bits of paperwork … !
Which took a while, I know that: there’s more to do, I know that … !
At any rate: I start, formally, on the 16th.
Keeps your fingers crossed for me, I’m going to need a stupidly early night.
At any rate?
I had time, tonight, to actually catch a movie.
~≈§≈~
Set in the fictional town of the same name, and written by Brian and Mark Gunn, Brightburn opens by showing us Tori (Elizabeth Banks) and Kyle (David Denman) Breyer: rural farmers desperate for a child.
Only to be — ahem — interrupted, one night.
When what they think is a meteor hits their farm.
That meteor? Turns out to be a crashed alien space ship … complete with a child.
A child the pair adopt, and christen Brandon (Jackson A. Dunn.)
You’d think a child like that would have a wonderful future, wouldn’t you … ?
Until, that is, Brandon turns twelve.
And starts hearing messages from the crashed spaceship hidden in the Breyer family barn …
~≈§≈~
Now …
Good, bad, indifferent?
Covered in chutney?
Let’s go last first, shall we?
Covered in chutney?
In other words, is this a fluffy, cheesy piece demanding a mango chutney accompaniment?
No.
Brightburn isn’t cheesy.
Far from it.
Whilst not a story driven by emotion, Brightburn is a horrific variation on the Superman story.
Showing us what happens if the central character starts abusing his powers.
Showing us — much as Boy Wonder does for Batman — exactly what happens when things go wrong.
OK: I don’t know that Brightburn is quite on a par with Boy Wonder.
But?
It is another film on the same riveting lines: there’s a gripping pair of central performances from Elizabeth Banks and Jackson A. Dunn, an unnerving look for the latter, plenty of realistic gore for the splatter fans
and a seriously nasty edge all the way through.
There’s something else, too.
The last scenes — buried in the credits — imply there’s other nastiness in the proverbial woodwork.
If Brightburn is the first in a franchise?
I’d like to see that: in the hope that — unlike what I’ve of some of the Conjuring franchise — any other entries in the Brightburn series are improvements …
Brightburn? Isn’t a great film.
But IS thoroughly entertaining, a good start for a franchise …
And very watchable …
Brightburn.
★★★☆
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