Midnight Special (2016) Full HD Movie

Midnight Special (2016) Full HD Movie:

Midnight Special (2016) Full HD Movie

A father and son go on the run, pursued by the government and a cult drawn to the child's special powers.

Director:

 Jeff Nichols

Writer:

 Jeff Nichols

Stars:

 Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst

Storyline:

Alton Meyer is a boy unlike any other in the world with bizarrely powerful abilities and strange weaknesses. In the middle of the night, his father, Roy, spirits him away from the isolated cult that practically worships him and is determined to regain him at all costs. At the same time, Alton's abilities have been noticed by the US government as well and they are equally insistent on getting to the bottom of this mystery with Paul Sevier of the National Security Agency leading the Federal pursuit with his own questions. These rival hunts force father and son into a desperate run towards a looming date with destiny that could change everything.

 Midnight Special (2016) Full HD Movie Reviews:

Having highly regarded "Shelter", I was very much looking forward to this film. What a disappointment! A sci-fi film doesn't have to make sense to be successful, but this film seems to have no idea where it's going, and when it gets there, it's nearly laughable. And the pacing: slow, slower, slowest. This leads to the direction. First, the central character, played by an eight-year-old boy, can (understandably) not act, so the approach seems to be to have someone read each line to the boy and have him repeat the line in a deadpan close-up. And this approach is also used to hinder the performances of a wasted group of fine actors. Long close ups of faces are shot in a silent-film style. They almost scream: 'OK Kirsten, look down sadly for two beats and then look up slowly with a dawning notion that something important has just happened'. And these 'reaction' shots are dropped between live action scenes in a way that the 'reaction' takes far longer than it ever could have believably. And this happens over and over again, creating a pacing that is hard to endure. (No competent editor could have created this mess of a montage unless it was required, for some reason, by the director.) In sum, a bunch of characters do things that make no sense (slowly), then reach a 'payoff' worthy of a low-budget SyFy TV movie. Yeesh, what a dud