There were high hopes for this film. It seemed as if this could bring in a new chapter in two genres. Seeing how Fox did not get into gear with their horror superhero movie in The New Mutants, there was a void that was left to fill. Now I'm thinking that its a void for a reason. I did not hate Brightburn. There were more great qualities than bad. The bad was in the overall execution of this kind of story. Elizabeth Banks was the gem in this movie. If you did not feel a connection between her and Jackson Dunn this movie was not going to work. In comparisons to Superman, the connections between father and son was more important. Brightburn was bond between a boy and his mother.Why are there a lot of horrors about a corrupt child with issues with his mother? This is probably why this movie could not connect with me. I am a man who was raised by a single mother. I left this film feeling like this weight of seeing these stories done so many times could have left a better impression when they were fused together but it just made the load that much more harder to carry. We've seen a superman done plenty of times, a killer child movie has been done to death (pun intended and nailed), we've seen alien movie. Mix all three of these types of stories and we could have a tremendous final result or we could have a mixed bag of a mess.
Brightburn was not a mess, it just did not push me to want more. I do not feel like I've seen anything new. A bad kid who goes on a hormonal rampage, I've been that kid. The only thing we've introduced is superpowers. I feel that a kid who's lived a life of love which this character has could have had more of a struggle dealing with his desires to kill or at the least be hurtful. The heel turn was on a dime and the whiplash from that made the final season of Game of Thrones look meek in comparison. The problem I had with it was that it was a bit confusing on whether the boy was being controlled, was just a bad kid, or his alien instincts were just set to indifference from day one. The last one would make the least since because those tendencies would have been there in him since the day he arrived. He seems more of a Clark Kent and he turns Lex in a matter of a second. It never really clarified what his problem was or what was going on in his head. At one point I believed he was just gone and a completely different alien mind took him over.
Or maybe its just a message of a crappy kid and this was really a metaphor of privileged youth who feel like the world owes them everything for nothing.
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