Names of “Sylvester Stallone” as producer and his “Balboa Productions” didn’t make meaning for a movie in unknown and dubious people whose all filmographies created tinge of VOD while adaptation of real story is other addition to everything. That what I had before watching.
A scriptwriter Luke Paradise wrote only Sympathy for the Devil which through trailer perceived as bigger than a standard low budget movie but more research did that it isn’t. But here, he made a riveting adaptation of story of Donn Fendler, a boy who lost in woods of Maine. A little bit dramatized with fiction but it doesn’t commit a serious insult to actuality (or better to say in plain English, it doesn’t make Ridley Scott.). A script turns out as a powerful drama which not only about missed kid. A personal love to Paradise’s work is for absence of cliché in a main character gets knowledge of needful skills in beginning which he will use later.
Narrating of director Andrew Boodhoo Kightlinger is inventive and makes to experience everything occurring as I adore scene at fire. He became a rare man whose decisions to use slow motion had coordinated portion and on place. Combination of fiction with documentary footage and interviews of participants are harmonious and convincing as needful additions. And, of course, it’s also gratitude to cinematographer Idan Menin who discloses as topnotch master of camera.
Cast is solid great either adults or kids. Luke David Blumm, who embodied Donn Fendler, lives his personage as everybody does except I don’t like only Caitlin FitzGerald who without naturalness. I hardly accepted her for mother of characters. She made a rare glimpse of good acting.
This movie is absolutely a big discovery.
