![]() ![]() A couple (Elizabeth Banks and David Denman) desperate (and unable) to conceive a child live in a farm in the small town of Brightburn, Kansas. The adherence to Superman lore is so complete one might consider Warner Brothers indeed thought this was a parody, thus not worth getting into any legal fuss over. There are ideas, plenty of them- which make the entire endeavor even more frustrating, but rather than choosing the best- or at the very least what they felt was the best- path to follow the filmmakers seem to have religiously implemented a strict policy of throwing everything at the wall in the hopes of something- anything- managing to stick. BRIGHTBURN is not an actual movie, but an elevator pitch come to quite inert life. The promised story is there, all right, but all of the myriad possible scenarios that might have played out fail actually to unfold- incredibly, the end of the movie leaves you feeling as if no scenario whatsoever played out at all. It ultimately settles for a disappointing mediocrity defined throughout by an infuriating indecisiveness. BRIGHTBURN, the concoction from director David Yarovesky and Journey 2: The Mysterious Island screenwriters Brian and Mark Gunn (James Gunn’s brother and cousin, respectively- hence the ubiquitous From the Visionary Creator of Guardians of the Galaxy title cards all over the marketing materials) is neither enjoyable nor even trashy. The prospect of watching what, if not promised, at least strongly hinted at being thoroughly enjoyable and slightly trashy (in the most delicious fashion, too) take on the material was very enticing.Īlas. ![]() Sure, it was far from an original idea, having been previously played in comic book form in some alternate version or another (Mark Millar’s Red Son) or verbatim (Mark Waid’s Irredeemable). The premise is bluntly to-the-point and apparent to anyone who has watched any of the trailers and- at least to me- as close to a surefire concept as it gets. ![]() What if Superman opted to grow up into a bad guy instead of becoming a superhero? ![]()
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