There is no really what to be said about this movie. For what it is, it's nice and that's all about it. And what it is - it is an anti-superhero movie. A very dark one, but not like "The Crow" where we had all this darkness surrounded with so much character and story development - here we have a bad super-hero and that's really it. They copy the Superman concept - a child lands on the Earth, but not in Kansas, it's been raised, realizes he is almost invulnerable (got a weakness after all), gets mad to the world and goes to take it over and destroys the humanity. He discovers his true self, when his spaceship calls him in his dreams (the ship is berried in their barn. And that's it. Really. What we miss from Superman is sooo much:
1) Where this child comes from 2) Why this child flew his own world 3) Who are the parents 4) How he found the Earth 5) Is there an opposing force? He is soo super that nothing can stops him. After all he could get hurt from his own spaceship, but still - who will fight this new bad superman and how? 6) Any emotional development, we saw he gets in love, but what after that?
Also there is a scene, where his mother breaks a shard from his spaceship with bare hands!! Excuse me - this is supposed to be alien technology, much more unbreakable, than our own. And how exactly did that happened?
It had the pottential to be something good, but it is not. Still - it is nice to watch. Not scary at all, just dark, so it is not a horror movie at all.
Check it out, if you have nothing else on the plate for the evening.
1) Where this child comes from 2) Why this child flew his own world 3) Who are the parents 4) How he found the Earth 5) Is there an opposing force? He is soo super that nothing can stops him. After all he could get hurt from his own spaceship, but still - who will fight this new bad superman and how? 6) Any emotional development, we saw he gets in love, but what after that?
Also there is a scene, where his mother breaks a shard from his spaceship with bare hands!! Excuse me - this is supposed to be alien technology, much more unbreakable, than our own. And how exactly did that happened?
It had the pottential to be something good, but it is not. Still - it is nice to watch. Not scary at all, just dark, so it is not a horror movie at all.
Check it out, if you have nothing else on the plate for the evening.