Brightburn

This movie stands and falls on the idea of "inverse Superman" – that’s literally all that Brightburn has to offer. Its plot develops in a completely predictable way without any major twists or surprises. With a dull to out of place cast (Elizabeth Banks) and sterile directing, even ninety minutes is extremely long. Michael Rooker and his cliffhanger already quite seriously gave the impression that the would-be sequel would be pointless. (17/02/2020)

A unique compilation of screenwriting and directing flaws that carefully whitewash the fact that everything we see is just a narrow slice of the grand concept of "superhero horror". As such, nothing in the film exists offscreen and nothing there has any character. The filmmakers at least acknowledge this by saying that in order to be able to awaken any resonance in the audience at all, they crank up the sound at the right moments and the characters die in pretty decent Aja-esque gore circuses. (21/08/2019)

This could have been worth five stars... The theme was perfect. Finally a superpower-endowed creature whose anti-heroic acts I'd enjoy watching. Unfortunately, the authors kept the guy on too short a leash, limiting him to the territory of one small town or rather a cluster of houses and farms. The plot was too restrained, I hoped for more powerful action, but it turned out to be just a run-of-the-mill slasher horror film. Too bad, there was definitely more potential. (29/10/2019)

The American movie Brightburn initially looks very original, although the combination of superhero and horror is perhaps not so new. By the way, the poster evoked Joe Hill's The Cape comic. The best thing about Brightburn is that It is very gritty, which is good because the gory scenes are of a great standard. You have to give the movie's makers credit for that and trying to make a good movie. (05/09/2019)

The anticipated horror superman produced by James Gunn is a nice surprise for me and will not be missing from this year's top list. While most of my colleagues are rather disappointed, it worked perfectly for me as an evil superman origin story, and I didn't mind that it follows a familiar template. It has great pacing, decent actors, decent technical aspects, and once little superman goes on a rampage it offers this year’s two best gore scenes. The finale is nicely paced and I was really surprised at how brutal the film is in the end. I don’t think this year there’l be a more brutal and entertaining horror film, so thumbs up for me and I want to immediately see a sequel with a grown up evil superman! 80% (23/06/2019)