Boy Wonder (2010)

Artwork for Film Release

I have two serious problems with the poster on the right, review to come.  Number one, it paints this kid as a sort of urban superhero, which he is not.  And number 2, it gives credence to The Huffington Post for the bottom quote, which is impossible, unless the Citizens United case was right.  

I wonder.

Anyway, away we go.  The film can be summed up in the second sequence of shots in the film.  There, we find the protagonist running around this beautifully eerie foggy park.  It is breathtakingly beautiful, and thankfully the script  is nowhere to be sensed.

This film has one strong suit for it, it's shallow focus cinematography and small gems of good acting (read: very small gems).

The editing is pretty decent, even if uneven; and the same could be said regarding its music, score, and sound design.

The sad thing is, that depending on how much weight you lend the script and the acting, those decent factors might not be good enough to compensate enough to make this film watchable.

My notepaper is littered with exclamations of hatred for the script, plot expositions, bad lines, horrible plot holes, oxymoron, and almost anything else you can pinpoint in a bad script.

I personally did not think the cinematography was good enough to warrant me watching this indie film alone.

If Girlfight (2000) is your only foray into independent film, than watch this, it is definitely better.  If instead, you have a history of enjoying indie films forgo this one and maybe watch a really good foreign film that deals with a similar subject in a more powerful and successful way The Secret in Their Eyes (2009).

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addendum  

IMDb lists a remake of The Secret in Their Eyes (2009) although all the details are yet to be listed...please go watch the original Argentine film before the remake makes its way through Hollywood.

Last time they remade an Argentine film, Nine Queens (2000) into Criminal (2004), it was a horrible waste of time and money.

And this coming from the guy who would watch Your Highness (2011) again.