My Son

Movie keeps the tension always high. Reminds me of a classic scandinavian thriller, but it's from GB/FR and plays in Scotland.

My Son is one of those movies that promises big, executes good, but ends horribly. It builds momenutm for something big, but ends up lacking a wrapping conclusion, leaving too many **** story follows Edmond Murray from the day he knows about the disappearance of his 7-year-old son. After the impact of such shocking news, and understanding that bureaucratic police procedure is going to take forever, he decides to dig into his own ****, though familiar, this thrilling plotline is intriguing to keep us hooked and going. For the most part, the plot work beautifully, and, as beats happen, you spyral deeper and deeper into a web of conspiracies and the always-lurking questions if this is more than just mere chance. But the problem is that a lot of the build-up falls flat in the last segment of the **** our distaste, the film ends with an anticlimactic series of events that works beautifully for Edmond but leaves us with too many open questions. So much of the build-up left unanswered, a complex web finished so simply – yet, is it though? The film is unclear.Regarding acting and pace, great movie. Thrilling, chilling, suspenseful. One would be biting their nails off, especially if they have kids. A shame that the resolution is subpar.

Meh !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This film took a unique approach: James McAvoy is cast as the father, but the actor was given no script, only an idea of the story. The other cast members (including Claire Foy who plays the mom) had full dialogue. The concept is that the father is reacting in real time to the terrible situations and since McAvoy is a strong actor, it basically works. He and Foy play the estranged parents of a young boy who goes missing. Their despair and relationship issues dominate the first two thirds of the story, so it’s not til the final portion that any plot or tension develops. That’s when things get a bit hairy. There’s too much rambling and dialogue for most of the narrative and even the final moments leave lots of questions. This is an interesting experiment that’s moderately involving.

The flaws of this thriller are both its structure and the artifice of having James McAvoy leading the story and working the story without having a script. Everything is responsive on his part, and even despite his good work, you can't help but notice that on several points a better composition was needed. In general terms, it can't help but to provoke the sensations of being a tv show. Like the pilot of a limited miniseries HBO style mixed with a bit of the BBC. Certainly has the quality of a film in the production level, but it cannot advance beyond the ordinary plotting and execution.

McAvoy does a fantastic job but My Son ultimately is an incredibly unsatisfying movie that only lasts 90 minutes but really should have been closer to 70. The opening act is great and captivating, It's everything after that ruins the pacing. I mean there was 10 minute+ scene of McAvoy's character just going through someone's phone, Why? To pad the runtime obviously but it was totally unnecessary as that shouldn't have been any longer than a couple of minutes at the most. And stuff like that continues throughout the movie and it just kills any potential it had.

(Mauro Lanari) "Taken" with the script written on a coriander. Nothing else to add.