Painting itself as an anti-Superman story with the gore and scares ramped up, "Brightburn" is an intriguing concept at heart, but fails to live up to more than my basal expectations. Considering the idea, they do fairly little with it, and this movie stumbles towards being only forgettable.
From the word go, it's all a bit predictable. Nothing ever grabs you, and even the violence is short-lived and too reliant on gore to please many. Not only this, but when the potential for some real escalation does present itself (right at the end), it ends to a mismatch of boring news stories and a Billie Eilish song.
The whole thing is just a bit of a damp squib. What could have been better? Frankly, I didn't really care at all about any of the characters: I thought the antagonist was aimless, the parents a mix of overly understanding and blindly stupid, and the rest of the cast as bland as can be.
Couple this all with some meagre attempts at fights (all pointless given the power gulf), stalling and some really forced horror elements, there isn't much to keep your attention. "Brightburn" is probably one to miss.
From the word go, it's all a bit predictable. Nothing ever grabs you, and even the violence is short-lived and too reliant on gore to please many. Not only this, but when the potential for some real escalation does present itself (right at the end), it ends to a mismatch of boring news stories and a Billie Eilish song.
The whole thing is just a bit of a damp squib. What could have been better? Frankly, I didn't really care at all about any of the characters: I thought the antagonist was aimless, the parents a mix of overly understanding and blindly stupid, and the rest of the cast as bland as can be.
Couple this all with some meagre attempts at fights (all pointless given the power gulf), stalling and some really forced horror elements, there isn't much to keep your attention. "Brightburn" is probably one to miss.