It wasn't as cute as it might have been, which isn't a bad thing. A Christian movie, a military thriller performed entirely by children. A lot of the boys had beards or mustaches and seemed to play more than one role.
The kids weren't in the same age group. Most of them seemed to be about ten but there were also six-year-olds playing adults so it was like The Flintstones where Fred was twice as tall as Barney. Then they had a scene with a toddler who was actually playing a toddler. But since the adults were ten, she was a gigantic toddler.
I'm sure kids would like it. They were running around on elaborate kid-sized sets. They had steam powered boats and canals or waterways within the city. Their being armed with crossbows was perhaps less disturbing than having them shoot each other with guns. There were a couple of killings, but they didn't go overboard. Which was good. It can be confusing when they try to obscure the violence.
Like the old 1970's film Bugsy Malone, a gangster musical performed entirely by children. It took me a while watching that movie to realize that a kid being hit in the face with a pie was supposed to represent him being killed. Once you figured it out, it didn't make the murders any less disturbing. It'd be like having a spanking machine as a substitute for the electric chair but still having the kid die in it.
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