Being Flynn
(M18)- Release Date: 10th May 2012 (Showtimes)
- Language: English
- Running Time: 102 mins
- Genre: Comedy
- Director: Paul Weitz
- Cast: Paul Dano, Robert De Niro, Olivia Thirlby, Julianne Moore
- Local Distributor: Shaw Organisation
Academy Award-nominated writer-director Paul Weitz ("About A Boy") turns his hand to this moving portrait of fathers and sons. Based on a true story, "Being Flynn" follows Nick Flynn (Paul Dano of "Little Miss Sunshine", "There Will Be Blood") who is shocked to have his eccentric and long-absent father, Jonathan (two-time Academy Award winner Robert De Niro) reach out to him unexpectedly. Still feeling the loss of his mother (played in flashbacks by four-time Academy Award nominee Julianne Moore) in the midst of starting a new relationship with Denise (JUNO's Olivia Thirlby), the last person Nick wants to see is his father. But you cannot outrun fate and slowly Nick comes to realize he has been given the chance to make a real future not only for himself, but for his struggling father too.
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As dull as chewing on wax
What I loved most: none
What I really hated: story
It has zero entertaining value. It is as intellectually stimulating to adults as a nusery rhyme. It lies in the twilight zone between an 'Art film' and a cheap budget flick for high school nerd.
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As dull as chewing on wax
What I loved most: none
What I really hated: story
It has zero entertaining value. It is as intellectually stimulating to adults as a nusery rhyme. It lies in the twilight zone between an 'Art film' and a cheap budget flick for high school nerd.
Story:
Acting:
Direction:
Visuals:
Overall:
Nick Flynn (Paul Dano) is a wannabe writer with major daddy issues who had just acquired a job at a homeless shelter. His father whom he has not seen in 18 years, Jonathan Flynn (Robert De Niro), is a self absorbed racist homophobe and works as taxi driver. Through a series of events, Jonathan manages to lose his driving license and is forced to leave his home which then brings him to the homeless shelter where Nick is working to create all sorts of trouble and dysfunctional family awkwardness.
While Robert De Niro's acting was top notch as usual, the character he played in this film is just like the friend that we all have who always brags at what they do, but has nothing to back themselves up with, and after a while this reviewer finds himself just tuning out to whatever he has to say. Paul Dano however has his ups and downs throughout his career; in here it was just mediocre as compared to his performances in "There Will Be Blood" or "Little Miss Sunshine", as he fails to register the right emotions his character is experiencing.
If the film was anything like the book, it must not have been a very good book or the adaptation has failed miserably. Enjoying the film is dependent on how well the audience is able to cope with the things that didn't work and be satisfied with the things that did.
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