Martian Child (2007)

5 out of 5 people found the following review helpful:

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interesting

A Customer from Plymouth, 22nd May, 2008

i liked this film slightly different from your normal child adoptions where the child believes hes an alien to avoid the painfull truth that nobody is going to love him and want to bring him up.

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4 out of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Brilliant

A Customer from Musselburgh, 27th May, 2008

The Cusacks working together, a very good child actor , good script , tight performances and things to laugh, cheer and cry about....what more could you want.

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3 out of 3 people found the following review helpful:

Martian Child - Slow, sweet in too few parts and NO tearjerker (shame).

A Customer from Wales, 14th June, 2008

Cusack, J - is a dysfunctional adult writer of sci-fi novels, and seeking solace, fosters an even more dysfunctional child. That child lives most of the day in a box (but is coaxed out by Cusack), believing himself to be from Mars - Cusack and child have a common thread to their relationship - or that is what was meant to have been portrayed. What follows is shallow, too slow and does not reflect the issues that both adult and child would really face, even if the adult would have been allowed to foster in the first place. No real emotion, although it goes through the motions, but without any real conviction. Produced with minimal care, and even less thought. Slightly mocking in places, and transparent in its storyline, which is both threadbare and lifeless. Some may enjoy, but really worth only one star.

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3 out of 3 people found the following review helpful:

Entertaining

A Customer from Mexborough, 9th May, 2008

Can't rave about it but was entertaining enough for a single veiwing.

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Touching film

Rima from from Cambridge, 7th September, 2008

I loved this film. It was so sweet and moving. The little boy is an amazing actor and I just adore John and Joan Cusack. They play Brother and Sister in the film and work so naturally together. I think they're both amazingly natural actors. Well worth a watch.

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Martian Child

A Customer from Kettering, 6th September, 2008

A bit slow to start, but very heartwarming

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Far-fetched

A Customer from Wrexham, 1st September, 2008

Far fetched but quite amusing. Man decides to adopt a young boy who says he has come from Mars. He has problems with him coming into sunlight,then manages to get him to come out of a cardboard box,,he then resorts to sunglasses and a parasol. Gradaully he is introduced into the life of a normal human being. However there is a rather poignant ending.If you like fantasy-style movies you should enjoy this one.

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1 out of 1 people found the following review helpful:

So very average

JamesC from from London, 27th August, 2008

I wonder what the producers of this film had in mind when they started out making this. It certainly looked like it could be good, I imagined it was pitching itself somewhere between K-Pax and About A Boy. However, it has no laughs and no mystery, just a simple plodding TV style narrative that takes you along a path that has been trodden so many times before. It is so average and unremarkable that I felt slightly cheated afterwards, cheated that someone would bother to make something so unambitious and sterile. Its lifted only by the presence of Cusack who still only puts the minimum work in which seems to be so common with his stuff recently. If you like gentle stories that get you from A to B in an efficient predictable way then you may get something from this. Im aware that 3 stars is an average and I'm giving this 2 but that is because it is so average it annoyed me.

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