My Son

James McAvoy and Claire Foy are the main reasons why this remake is surprisingly better than the original. Excellent photography and atmosphere of Highlands.

This is both tense and littered with beautiful scenery.

Like a cool car driving the speed limit, it doesn't push any barriers but looks good and performs well and that's OK.

A separated couple look for their missing son in this well shot thriller. It stays in its lane but the cinematography is gorgeous and James McAvoy is one of the most underrated actors working today so it doesn't go very far but at least it gets you there in style.

(PS It's a remake of the 2017 French film Mon Garçon, which I also gave a 7.)

This is a pretty intense movie, thanks only in part to James McAvoy's incredible improvisational performance. The fact that he didn't get a script and had to react in the moment adds a level of realism to the film that's hard to ignore. You can really feel the desperation and panic emanating from him as he searches for his missing son. I raised my rating a tad to reflect this. I wish I had known this before I started watching it.

It's a bold move by the filmmakers, and it pays off in terms of creating a sense of tension and urgency. The story itself is a bit rough around the edges, but McAvoy's performance is so compelling that it carries the film. If you're a fan of his work it is definitely worth checking out.

McAvoy did a great job making the dialogue up as he went along... the story was OK.
Worth watching.

Not great, but not bad.

I applaud McAvoy for working without a script but as the script is a bit ‘bare bones’ anyway, he was better off improvising. The film is okay but its all a bit rushed and unclear.

besides the fact of McAvoy without a script can delivery such a great acting, the story itself is unclear, very very rushed and sometimes no sense...

The movie is just a [spoiler] rescue mission[/spoiler] with a lot of [spoiler] development on the fatherly role[/spoiler]. It's a slow movie that feels like way longer and with a very shallow [spoiler]explanation of "why they kidnapped the kid"[/spoiler]
the cinematography is gorgeous!
overall it's a ok movie for me, nothing special, but i can see people liking this movie way more than me.

The idea of not giving a script to the main lead is interesting as an experiment, but the resulting film was very poor.
The photography was pretty though.