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Summary: Just plain good
Review: FINALLY! FINALLY! FINALLY! Macalay Culkin makes a good movie. True this movie didn't have an audience but Culkin and Wood pull of great performances in this flick.
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Summary: This flick claims to have roots from The Bad Seed...
Review: This was a bad bad ploy for something having ideas adapting from The Bad Seed (1956). I don't buy it. Sorry!
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Summary: Top Notch Entertainment!
Review: This movie rocks! Elijah Wood and Macauley Culkin are both brilliant actors. The story is good and I've read the book too. This movie is not be your average kiddy-type movie, its scary and disturbing. Buy it and you won't feel conned.
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Summary: The Good Son Review
Review: An excellent thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Macaulay Culkin was an excellent thriller. Would have never expected in a movie like this one. He plays a "evil" killer in this movie, but every one he knows thinks he's a really good person. Culkin's sister co-stars with him! So see them both in the camera! Elijah Wood is a very good actor. He plays the cousin of Macaulay Culkin, and he goes to visit him after his mother just died. His dad is on a business trip. So he is stuck with his psychopathic cousin for two weeks! And no one believes him that his cousin is a psychopath, especially his parents. An excellent drama! Highly recommended!!
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Summary: eye opener for the closed minded
Review: everyone who plays in this movie is amazing
Culkin makes a wicked evil son
Elijah Wood is amazing in his role
the ending is quite interesting
it helps you understand the beginning shot shot
the movie is scary as to how far Henry takes his lunacy with him and blames his cousin for alot of the things he does
one screwed up kid that only his cousin sees. some funny scenes too at times. Macauley is good at doing different roles. he's the perfect bad guy for this movie. it wouldn't of been as shocking had Elijah been the bad son. i mean that seriously. glad I bought this on dvd. worth the watch time and time again
this movie also goes to prove that sometimes the cute adorable kids you love aren't really so innocent after all. so remember that parents. keep that in mind and you'll be fine.
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Summary: Wood Great / Culkin Stinks
Review: This movie highlights the difference between a child actor with some talent, Elijah Wood and one without, Macaulay Culkin. Culkin, as he does in most of his movies, doesn't sound natural but rather like he is reading his lines. Wood sounds more natural in his delivery.
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Summary: there's something cool about this movie
Review: Macaulay Culkin does such a wonderful job in this movie... I've always loved The Good Son, probably because it's so different from all of his other movies. So cool!
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Summary: Good son, bad son
Review: It's child-star vs. child star in "The Good Son," a disturbing suspense movie about the brutality that even children can commit. Somehow it's not surprising that Ian McEwan wrote the screenplay -- it's no cheery, cutesy story, but a horror movie in every sense of the word.
As the movie opens, Mark (Elijah Wood) is brought to his mother's bedside as she dies. At the funeral, his father learns that he will have to go on a business trip, which will "set you and Mark up for life." So he drops off Mark at his uncle and aunt's in New England, hoping that the boy will buck up emotionally when he's around other kids. At first, all is well -- Mark immediately becomes pals with his cousin Henry (Macaulay Culkin), and the boys are soon inseparable.
But then Henry enlists Mark in a crazy prank: throwing a dummy onto a crowded highway, causing a massive accident. Mark realizes that his cousin cares nothing about the lives of others -- and discovers that he may have caused his baby's brother's mysterious death. But no one believes Mark -- and now Henry is planning to kill others in his family...
It's a sad fact that children can be as evil as adults, but the myth of childish purity sticks to us. That's why "Good Son" is so disturbing. Rather than treating the two kids as cardboard cutouts, they are as complex as adults -- capable of good or evil, and of terrible thoughts and actions. And, as we see in Mark, they can be heroes as well.
The storyline has a few too many cliches -- for example, the parents are utterly in the dark about Henry's true nature, although the mom does get a clue late in the movie. Ian McEwan did an excellent job with the scripting, however, slowly building up the suspense through little things like Henry pondering, "If I let you fall... do you think you could fly?" as Mark was dangling off a tree's branch. He also gives a sense of despration, as Mark tries to rescue Henry's little sister from an "accident," or destroys all the food when he thinks Henry has poisoned it all.
Wood gave a stellar performance as Mark, though he was the lesser child star at the time. He uses his expressive face and eyes to full advantage, showing all of Mark's horror, indecision, fear and sorrow without a word. Too bad Culkin wasn't nearly as good -- his portrayal of Henry is completely flat. The most emotion he ever shows is a shrug; I almost expected him to yawn.
"The Good Son" is a disturbing suspense movie, and not one that can be forgotten quickly. The main problem with it is Culkin's acting, while Wood did an outstanding job.
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Summary: 2 thumbs up
Review: I definetly recommend this movie! The characters are great, played by very excellent young actors. The crazy and disturbing actions by Henry keep you locked in to the movie leaving you in suspense to how the movie ends. Its easy to feel for Mark (played by elijah wood) and the terrible situations hes left in. Nobody can truly give this movie justice in a review. Need to see it for yourself!
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Summary: Very well done!
Review: I thought this movie was GREAT.. and i agree with another reviewer about Mac doing another project with Eli.. maybe even a sequel to it where Henry somehow survived, tho I've gotten replies saying how stupid that would be, lol. Anyway, this movie inspired me to take the characters and write my own little stories with them.. more terrorizing, more suspense.. I should make the sequel, haha.
Both of these guys are wonderful in this movie and if you're a fan of suspense I would definately recommend The Good Son ..and yes it is a little disturbing and twisted, but hey.. that's what makes it so great!!
This is the movie that made me fall in love with Elijah.
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