Another movie with a lot of potential to be outstanding but fell short of expectations. Overall it is a well-made movie, but the problem in making a science fiction movie like this is that the creators have to make the extra effort to ensure things stay true to reality, a.k.a. the screenwriters had to fully analyze what anyone would do in the same situation portrayed in this movie.
The main flaw here is that a grown man who has seen the world as a mid-age adult, trapped in a 15-year old boy and gets to relive his past, should be able to accomplish a lot of things that can make this movie really great. Probably the child actor was wrongly chosen as he did not exhibit in full the maturity level of a say 40-year-old adult, or the direction was flawed for not allowing the main character to take more action outside conventional expectations.
And when i mean 'outside conventional expectations', i am referring to the level of constraint in his action paths isn't supposed to be as limited as say, if the same character in the movie was a real young boy not knowing much of adult issues, or a character who has not lived through this past and had no way to predict what will happen next.
I actually expected him to be more of a mediator, or more of a neutral character, or attempting to fix issues via a third-person point of view, rather than falling into a victim of those circumstances himself (which he should have known better being an adult and assuming he must have encountered similar situations)
The main flaw here is that a grown man who has seen the world as a mid-age adult, trapped in a 15-year old boy and gets to relive his past, should be able to accomplish a lot of things that can make this movie really great. Probably the child actor was wrongly chosen as he did not exhibit in full the maturity level of a say 40-year-old adult, or the direction was flawed for not allowing the main character to take more action outside conventional expectations.
And when i mean 'outside conventional expectations', i am referring to the level of constraint in his action paths isn't supposed to be as limited as say, if the same character in the movie was a real young boy not knowing much of adult issues, or a character who has not lived through this past and had no way to predict what will happen next.
I actually expected him to be more of a mediator, or more of a neutral character, or attempting to fix issues via a third-person point of view, rather than falling into a victim of those circumstances himself (which he should have known better being an adult and assuming he must have encountered similar situations)