I'm not going to talk about the key.
There are some actors who can astonish us in the most underwritten roles. In this film: Viola Davis, Jeffrey Wright, Max von Sydow and (at times) Sandra Bullock. Even more astonishing is that in this film, von Sydow said nothing.
The child's psycho-emotional situation added very little, at the expense of making the hero essentially unsympathetic. An example of the problem is that the child's guiltiest secret becomes something the audience can ascribe to the child's condition, rather than identifying with.
And the ending seemed to me to be extremely contrived, with way too many nice touches.
The film had some very nice scenes, but minus two or three of the actors I mentioned, this film would be rather disappointing.
There are some actors who can astonish us in the most underwritten roles. In this film: Viola Davis, Jeffrey Wright, Max von Sydow and (at times) Sandra Bullock. Even more astonishing is that in this film, von Sydow said nothing.
The child's psycho-emotional situation added very little, at the expense of making the hero essentially unsympathetic. An example of the problem is that the child's guiltiest secret becomes something the audience can ascribe to the child's condition, rather than identifying with.
And the ending seemed to me to be extremely contrived, with way too many nice touches.
The film had some very nice scenes, but minus two or three of the actors I mentioned, this film would be rather disappointing.