Mom and Dad


I had no idea this was out already, I heard people going nuts about it , and of course the big draw is Nic Cage going nuts for 90 minutes... which isn't true.  He loses it halfway through the movie, which is fine (a whole movie would have been overkill), but it feels like he's not even in it that much until that second half.

The premise of the movie, if you didn't see the trailer, is that humans start savaging and killing their children.  Just their children, the other ones they don't care about.  Which is one of those premises that's so brilliantly simple it makes you wonder how no one did it before.

I liked it.  And I had no idea that Brian Taylor from Crank directed it.  You can definitely feel it.

The issues I thought I would have with the movie weren't there, which is good... but I still had some issues with it.  The main thing is that the daughter is the main character, and if you don't like her (or have a REASON to like her), you're kinda bored.  She was okay, not great, but I didn't really appreciate coming in that she was going to be the one I'd have to care about the most.

I can't really go into more issues without getting into spoilers, so I'll avoid them... but for the few issues I did have, I also enjoyed the ever-loving S#!T out of this movie.  Definitely worth a rent at least.