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Film Flush Ep. 5.2: Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close review
by inSing.com Editor
inSing.com - 24 February 2012 4:09 PM | Updated 28 February 2012 11:55 AM
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Rating: 3 stars out of 5
The Stars: Tom Hanks, Max Von Sydow, Sandra Bullock
The Buzz: Nominated for Best Picture Oskar and based on a bestselling novel by Jonathan Safran
Foer.
The story: A year after his father died in the World Trade Center on what Oskar calls “The Worst Experts
Day,” Oskar, an inventive eleven year-old New Yorker, discovers a key in his deceased father’s
belongings that sets him off on an urgent search across the city for the lock it will open.
insing.com thinks: Trying to put a film on a weighty a subject as 9/11 and a city’s recovery from
the aftermath is not easy, and Stephen Daldry, director of Billy Elliott, can’t quite bring the magic he
found in his debut film, considering the heavy subject material, on a young actor that has to take on
a quirky role.
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A coming-of-age story intermixed with how one comes to grips with loss and an event as random New Opening New Arrivals
as the 9/11 attacks, Daldry relies on Oskar’s quest to find the lock that the mysterious key opens. Giveaway Tech Weekly
In his journey, Oskar comes across the natives of New York and finds compassion and What’s New
understanding from them, and finds help from unexpected sources.
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Daldry, working from a film script by Eric Roth (Forrest Gump), knows how to go for the tear ducts. Trailer feature Fun For Free
It’s a pity that the film comes across as manipulative and almost exploitative, parading out 9/11 Movie feature Preview Guide
imagery such as the falling men, but the characters are half-formed. Seemingly autistic Oskar has SC Reviews Contests
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Hanks and Bullock are serviceable but highly distracting, and it’s hard to imagine the two as a
couple. They have only one scene together before the collapse of the towers. Von Sydow, who
plays a mute renter, tries to do as much as he can with his limited role, and his face conveys a
lifetime of tragedy. The young Horn has to carry the movie on his frail shoulders and take on a
character that often comes across as unsympathetic and occasionally irrational, and it’s too much
of a tall order for the actor, particularly in a film that carries so much weight.
Ultimately, the film suffers from contrivances and tries too hard to serve out Hallmark channel
moments. It’s a noble effort trying to tell a difficult story, but doesn’t quite come close to great
cinema.
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