Brightburn

«Brightburn» was a good idea. Unfortunately the creativity stopped there.

Its harsh, pitiless violence could earn it a cult, but it’s ultimately a workmanlike movie playing at being something more renegade...

The final effect… is a disheartening vacuum. Having torn down a myth, it leaves little but a dropped mic in its wake.

The premise is intriguing, but this gruesome origin story plays like just another slasher film with idiots for victims.

Brightburn can at least boast an interesting premise – not that it does anything with it.

Despite its simplicity, Brightburn’s premise is filled with potential, but it struggles to find anything meaningful to say.

What if Superman started out evil? And what if that was the only idea you had for your movie?

The terror is baked in – what if a super-strong space alien crashed to Earth and wanted to kill everyone? now that’s an idea right...

Crossbreeding superhero tropes with horror staples was an idea laden with promise. Brightburn is enlivened by trademark James Gunn black comedy, bu...

If the filmmakers had a modicum of curiosity about the implications of their own idea, the movie might have had something interesting to say.

As an antihero with an oedipal complex, neither Brandon nor Dunn is sufficiently creepy or conflicted to launch a new franchise.

What If baby Superman broke bad? A great premise gets seriously squandered in this ridiculous superhero/horror movie mash-up. The only thing truly...

For such a specific, clever-on-paper idea, Brightburn follows a shockingly predictable turn of events, possibly because it has few refere...

Because the film that this broadside of brass describes is ultimately, seriously, «Duuuumb!»

The way the film shuttles through its 90 minutes, it’s as if it’s been stripped of its most crucial narrative parts.

A machine to deliver gore and violence, Brightburn also features some of the most improbably and even hatefully dumb salt-of-the-Earth type charact...

The movie is more or less all premise. The rest is just an occasionally suspenseful, occasionally gory sci-fi riff on any number of earthbound cree...

The premise isn’t bad, even if the evil-Superman origin story was done better in «Chronicle.» The execution, however, is lacking, particularl...

I wish there were more to Brightburn.

Although Brightburn’s final seconds hint at James' more finely attuned cinematic sensibilities the film is not nearly as strong as its villai...

While not exactly original, the premise is certainly effective enough. But Brightburn lacks the visual stylization or wit to elevate it from the re...