WHAT’S IT ABOUT
What if a child from another world crash-landed on Earth, but instead of becoming a hero to mankind, he proved to be something far more sinister? With Brightburn, the visionary filmmaker of Guardians of the Galaxy and Slither presents a startling, subversive take on a radical new genre: superhero horror.
MOVIESinMO REVIEW
I hope everybody that wished for an evil Superman is happy now. This movie should have had a much higher budget, then maybe they could have paid a better writer. As it is, Brightburn is a horror film that just happens to have a super-strong alien in it. Unfortunately, the horror part is slow and predictable, and the alien element is stupid and unfinished. Together they make one mess of a movie. This film has been advertised as an evil Superman-type horror movie. Given the way DC has screwed up their main two characters (Batman & Superman), Brightburn should fit right in. It’s the same dull half-written crap with promises that never deliver. I really wanted this movie to be exciting, scary, something. What you get is a movie that starts slow and gets slower. The conversations between characters don’t matter, and you ultimately don’t care. Everything is done to waste time while you wait for the child Brandon Breyer, to do something evil. Eventually, it happens, and it takes so long, you don’t care when it does. Mr. and Mrs. Kent, I mean Breyer, got Clark, I mean Brandon, from a spaceship that fell to earth when he was a baby. He had a happy and loving family, and this is where the main Man of Steel similarities end. Clark was a dorky outcast and friendly. Brandon was a confused outcast and demonically evil. The concept may have looked good on paper, but to see it in motion is a whole other story. Even the horror parts of the movie are just lazy filmmaking. This is not the first time a spoiled privileged little white kid had a tantrum and killed people. This isn’t even the best version of that type of story. Children of the corn, The Good Son, or the original Halloween, just for starters. Even Twilight Zone had some episodes with killer kids. So it’s not a hard concept to deal with, Brightburn just did it wrong. If this were the pilot of a new television series, it would have so much potential. Sadly, this was a mediocre half-done movie, that took a great idea and ruined it for all interested in a super villain’s origin story. I really hope Joker gets it right.
OUR RATING – NOT-SO-SUPER 3
MEDIA
- Genre – Comic Book
- Street date
- Digital – August 6th 2019
- DVD/Blu-Ray – August 20th 2019
- Video – 1080p
- Screen size – 2.39:1
- Sound – English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Spanish: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1, French: Dolby Digital 5.1, Thai: Dolby Digital 5.1
- Subtitles – English, English SDH, French, Spanish
Extras
- 3 “Quick Burns” Vignettes hosted by Actor Elizabeth Banks, Producer James Gunn & Director David Yarovesky
- “Hero-Horror!” featurette: It’s not often filmmakers successfully and seamlessly combine both Horror and Superhero into a genre-bending “Hero-Horror” category. Hear from Producer James Gunn and Screenwriters Brian and Mark Gunn as we will learn the methods of their filmmaking style and their dotting of the “i”‘s and slashing of the “t”‘s storytelling process.
- “Nature vs. Nurture” featurette: Hear from Actor Jackson A. Dunn, Producer James Gunn, Screenwriters Brian and Mark Gunn and understand the creative process involved in flipping the script of the traditional “Superhero” and diving into what motivates and moves our new Anti-hero, Brandon Breyer.
- Filmmaker Commentary with Director David Yarovesky, DP Michael Dallatorre, and Costume Designer Autumn Steed