If you enjoy watching beautiful shots of Irish scenery, where it always looks as if a storm is coming, then this movie might find favor with you. But as far as a fascinating tale about a little boy who acts very strange after his mother finds him near a gigantic sinkhole, the size of Manhattan, this movie falls flat.
The whole movie revolves around the facial expressions of the mother, played on one note by actress Seana Kerslake. There are endless, very long shots of just her face as she stares into the camera, looks out the window, driving her car, sitting at her kitchen table, sitting up in bed and we're supposed to be fascinated by what's going through her mind as she wonders about the peculiar behavior of her little son, played by James Quinn Markey.
There's little action regarding his sudden change of subtle behavior after he's discovered at the pit. He continues to act quietly and nicely but to the mother, there is something wrong with him.
We keep waiting for something dramatic to show us that the boy really has changed since being discovered at the pit. With the exception of one scene, where the mother peers through a keyhole to see her son swallowing something strange, nothing else happens.
Also, it's hard to believe that even a brave mother would go racing through the forests in the dead of night and jumps into the sinkhole to discover its terrible secret and then somehow emerge quickly with no injuries.
The mother plays most of the movie in a pair of overalls and an unattractive sweater and only changes her attire in the last scene. The wardrobe department had an easy job on this production.
The movie drags slowly, slowly, like melting candle wax, and I quickly became bored of looking at endless close-ups of the face of the mother.
The actions of her son, going from normal to weird, didn't click because to the viewer, he hadn't really changed at all except toward the end where he proves to be from another world but there's little explanation explaining why and how this happened. Enjoy the Irish countryside.
The whole movie revolves around the facial expressions of the mother, played on one note by actress Seana Kerslake. There are endless, very long shots of just her face as she stares into the camera, looks out the window, driving her car, sitting at her kitchen table, sitting up in bed and we're supposed to be fascinated by what's going through her mind as she wonders about the peculiar behavior of her little son, played by James Quinn Markey.
There's little action regarding his sudden change of subtle behavior after he's discovered at the pit. He continues to act quietly and nicely but to the mother, there is something wrong with him.
We keep waiting for something dramatic to show us that the boy really has changed since being discovered at the pit. With the exception of one scene, where the mother peers through a keyhole to see her son swallowing something strange, nothing else happens.
Also, it's hard to believe that even a brave mother would go racing through the forests in the dead of night and jumps into the sinkhole to discover its terrible secret and then somehow emerge quickly with no injuries.
The mother plays most of the movie in a pair of overalls and an unattractive sweater and only changes her attire in the last scene. The wardrobe department had an easy job on this production.
The movie drags slowly, slowly, like melting candle wax, and I quickly became bored of looking at endless close-ups of the face of the mother.
The actions of her son, going from normal to weird, didn't click because to the viewer, he hadn't really changed at all except toward the end where he proves to be from another world but there's little explanation explaining why and how this happened. Enjoy the Irish countryside.