I had no idea what this movie was about before I saw it- but my boyfriend had it digitally and we had a social distancing movie date of streaming this movie and watching it together... which was great! I did really like this movie overall... but it did have some problems.
So this is a horror movie that is basically if Superman was a villain. The Breyer family lives on a farm in a town called Brightburn and around their son Brandon's 12th birthday he starts acting a little peculiar. He wakes up in the middle of the nice hearing voices, he's been very angry around his parents and a girl he likes at school who thought she saw him outside of her window... all very strange things happening with this kid. And we find out his parents adopted him when they found him in a spaceship.
The story is interesting. It actually is scary and I feel like this would have been fun to see in theaters... but the characters were a little flat. The characters are all detailed pretty well, the mom is an artist that always wears a band t shirt and she sings Bob Marley to Brandon to get him to go back to sleep... and I thought her character was built nicely... as were the other characters... but there was no real motive for anyone. Especially the main character Brandon. He's evil and we know it's just because of his super powers... but there's nothing really explaining why he wants to take over the world or anything... just he's a bad, evil kid that doesn't want to get caught. And he was almost TOO powerful to the point where it felt inevitable that no one could really stop him.
The movie was well directed in my opinion. There was one scene where Brandon's dad sees him chewing a fork and the fork gets destroyed... and no one ever mentions it to any other characters and it just doesn't come up again. It felt like a scene that was supposed to be deleted but they just kept it in... and that was kind of weird. The movie was pretty well paced too where one moment it seems like you're just watching a wholesome family movie and then it gets kind of gory and scary really quick. And the tone seems like a horror movie all throughout- like I knew nothing about the movie and my boyfriend didn't tell me... but I knew it was a horror movie right away.
This was written by Brian and Mark Gunn- who are the brother and cousin of James Gunn. James Gunn produced the movie. At the end of the credits they show some news reports and my boyfriend said that he saw Rainn Wilson's character from Super- which is also a James Gunn movie... so that is interesting. I wonder if there's going to be something more of these movies... probably not but that would be interesting. I would actually watch any other movie set in this universe even though I'd say it wasn't the best.
Overall I would say watch this movie if you like Superman, if you like James Gunn movies, or if you like horror movies with a little bit of a darker gorier aspect to it. It's not TOO gory- but there were some scenes that showed more than I would expect it to show. It was done well. Not the best movie because of the character's lack of motivation- but I'd still give it 2 and a half out of 5 stars. Watchable but not amazing.
Bye!
-Shannon
So this is a horror movie that is basically if Superman was a villain. The Breyer family lives on a farm in a town called Brightburn and around their son Brandon's 12th birthday he starts acting a little peculiar. He wakes up in the middle of the nice hearing voices, he's been very angry around his parents and a girl he likes at school who thought she saw him outside of her window... all very strange things happening with this kid. And we find out his parents adopted him when they found him in a spaceship.
The story is interesting. It actually is scary and I feel like this would have been fun to see in theaters... but the characters were a little flat. The characters are all detailed pretty well, the mom is an artist that always wears a band t shirt and she sings Bob Marley to Brandon to get him to go back to sleep... and I thought her character was built nicely... as were the other characters... but there was no real motive for anyone. Especially the main character Brandon. He's evil and we know it's just because of his super powers... but there's nothing really explaining why he wants to take over the world or anything... just he's a bad, evil kid that doesn't want to get caught. And he was almost TOO powerful to the point where it felt inevitable that no one could really stop him.
The movie was well directed in my opinion. There was one scene where Brandon's dad sees him chewing a fork and the fork gets destroyed... and no one ever mentions it to any other characters and it just doesn't come up again. It felt like a scene that was supposed to be deleted but they just kept it in... and that was kind of weird. The movie was pretty well paced too where one moment it seems like you're just watching a wholesome family movie and then it gets kind of gory and scary really quick. And the tone seems like a horror movie all throughout- like I knew nothing about the movie and my boyfriend didn't tell me... but I knew it was a horror movie right away.
This was written by Brian and Mark Gunn- who are the brother and cousin of James Gunn. James Gunn produced the movie. At the end of the credits they show some news reports and my boyfriend said that he saw Rainn Wilson's character from Super- which is also a James Gunn movie... so that is interesting. I wonder if there's going to be something more of these movies... probably not but that would be interesting. I would actually watch any other movie set in this universe even though I'd say it wasn't the best.
Overall I would say watch this movie if you like Superman, if you like James Gunn movies, or if you like horror movies with a little bit of a darker gorier aspect to it. It's not TOO gory- but there were some scenes that showed more than I would expect it to show. It was done well. Not the best movie because of the character's lack of motivation- but I'd still give it 2 and a half out of 5 stars. Watchable but not amazing.
Bye!
-Shannon
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