GamerTab
That was an excellent one.
CommentsXp
Best movie ever!
Odelecol
Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.
Jonny
Some of the reviews written here must be for another film.It's most certainly not a family film. After half an hour i suggested we give up and *everyone* agreed immediately. My kids and wife were bored and a little disturbed. While it might be historically accurate - in attitudes and behaviours - we were all uncomfortable with the racist, bigoted, hate that permeated the characters. And at no point was there a token character to point out how times have changed, how we now consider such attitudes unacceptable, how antisocial and ignorant behaviour should not be tolerated, etc...I'm sure that some well educated youngsters, and many older people, can discuss how wrong and backward were the attitudes of *those* days, but my kids were watching bullying, racism, and general bigotry as though its an acceptable way of life. No thanks. Not on my watch.Maybe the rest of the movie makes up for all this. i'll never know.humorous? No! Clever? Definitely not!
mom-41721
This is a heartwarming beautiful story. Now one of my all time favorites! My whole family was crying! Beautifully written. I could not believe how faithful it stayed to the Catholic faith. No Father Fluffies - just good old fashioned truth and love. There are always struggles in life - sometimes we get off the path - but I loved how the influence of the faith never left.This movie has a great 40's vintage California feel on the coast - they captured it completely. I felt like I was stepping into that era. Beautifully done. A wonderful family movie - it's inspiring! Little Boy will have you captivated and sitting on the edge of your seat! God bless everyone involved and thank you for making such a wonder-filled movie.
wesleyjnixon
I took my kids to see this while it was still in the theaters, and we all loved the movie. However, the miracles and tolerance lectures were so prominent that even my children thought it was a bit sappy.The story is great, and you can't help but get a little choked up over the "Little Boy's" love and faith. So, if you go into the movie knowing that it is very moral-focused movie, you'll probably enjoy it a lot more than we did.It was also great to see Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa again. He did the most justice to his character, and seemed to pull real emotion from the young Jakob Salvati.
bdeanrob-1
I have a bachelor's degree in filmmaking, and I'm a published film critic (mainly in my college years but have since gotten a real job). Little Boy is one of the most well-crafted films I have seen this year. The cinematography is outstanding. The acting is top notch -- and the young boy in particular is very talented, a natural. The cast is full of some of the best character actors in Hollywood. The narrative is well-written -- it is multi-layered with complex, dynamic characters. The narrative pulls at the heart strings in ways that are not felt to be manipulative and inauthentic; rather, the powerful emotional pay-off of the film's narrative arc is hard won through good storytelling. The narrative also works very well, at a different level of analysis, as an allegory where the young boy is seen to represent the United States itself. The editing is also impressive. Parallel editing between scenes, while not exactly a novel device since at least The Godfather, the device is very effectively utilized in ways that convey much more meaning that if the scenes had not been inter-spliced together. This is almost perfect gem of a film. There is only one reason why critics have been hard on this film, and that is due to the explicitly Christian, and especially Catholic, themes of the film. There is an obvious prejudice against the film merely due to the fact that it has religious themes. Film critics have been long known to bash films that don't fit their politics or anti-theist agendas. They can stuff it. So, ignore the critics, and see this film today.
