Review: Brightburn
An alien craft lands in rural America, and hippy-ish childless couple Elizabeth Banks and David Denman adopt the human-looking ‘child’ found inside. It takes about 12 years for them to realise they’re no Ma and Pa Kent, and this ‘kid’ they’ve been raising at gonna be no Superman. Played by Jackson A. Dunn, he’s got superpowers alright, but he’s dark, creepy, violent, and has no intention of saving the world. In fact, he might just end up doing the opposite. A lot of people got strangely “Kick-Ass” morally offended on this one for reasons I can’t quite figure out now I’ve seen this 2019 anti-superhero flick. Directed by David Yarovesky (who mostly comes from a short background) and scripted by cousins Brian and Mark Gunn (The fabulous sounding “Bring it On: Again” ), it all seems much ado about nothing. I didn’t outright reject the idea of an anti-superhero film, nor one with a youngster in that role, though I did worry the film would end up more “Omen” clone than anti-super...