Review of Light of My Life

I'm writing this review as a father of two daughters and a son. I didn't mind the opening scene, only because it reminded me of all my bed time stories shared with my children. However, this is a movie and Casey made a mistake taking all that time right from the start. I felt like falling asleep listening that long to the opening bedtime story. The point of all the dangers, not to trust anyone, red alerts, emergency getaway plans was a constant throughout. So it's really damn dangerous out there and every day is a life or death struggle. It was drilled into his daughter and the audience. Which leads to the biggest problem. No weapons?! No gun?! No knife?! No bow and arrows?! This is a father struggling to survive a dangerous world with dangerous people and he doesn't have any protection? Was this some kinda anti-gun point? I wouldn't be surprised being how agenda driven Hollywood is. Even so, why not a knife, like a bunch of knives? Use the knives to make a bow and some arrows, a couple spears. How can you hunt for food without some knives, guns, something? As a father I'm writing this review and thinking that was probably the dumbest thing about this movie.

It's really hard to let the no guns aspect go, but putting that aside I really enjoyed the acting and the story. I loved the relationship between the father and his child. That is what kept me focused throughout the movie. Very well done by the young actress and Casey.

Finally the ending...that's the other problem. There was no ending. It was like they ran out of time because of that long opening bedtime story or they ran out of ideas. It goes from an intense scene to black and the credits start. There really is nothing worse than a bad ending, a movie without an ending.