The Comet Kids (2017) Reviews

• While enticing, it misses something.

  onemosley2018-11-18

  The Comet Kids is a film set in both our present day as well as the 1950s. It's in the mid 1950s that a boy, after this father's death embarks on a journey along with his friends to find his father's discovered comet that way he could avenge the death of his father. Along the way there's of course figured to be bad men, one of which the former colleague of the boy's father, whom tried crediting the comet to himself. In the end, the movie does definitely work. It makes you feel good when it wants to and it makes you feel sad when it wants to. However, something for me personally in the end didn't seem right to me. Whether or not it was the storyline itself or me as a viewer I'm not sure. However, I am sure they if you have found this film and have not yet watched it, please do yourself a favor and do so. At the end of the film you'll either street with me or you'll like the movie even more. There really isn't a whole lot to hate about this movie, honestly it's just the way I had watched the movie and the at my own mind works that made me feel as if there could have been better, more exciting ways to have ended the movie. However the film ends very realistically and all's well that ends well.

• Recommended if you want to know how not to make a film!

  chrish-181982018-04-10

  If you like picking apart movie flaws, this one will require a notebook - and diligence to sit thru. We spent more time picking out faults in this film than we took watching it! From the start, when it's clear the costume budget ran out before they got to the main characters (eg boy with long hair and wearing camo shirt in 1956 or another wearing a bright yellow tie and untucked shirt in 1956); to not employing someone who knew how to use a calculator (set in 1956 and the "present day" but 74 years apart... so 2030? and the 40yo daughter whose mother would therefore have been 50ish when pregnant) to a slow-mo stare off when the villain and protagonist meet; to the villain standing there and waiting to be punched; to numerous scenes that do little to advance the story; to the 16yo kids regularly saying "But we're just kids, they're adults, we can't beat them" - what movie of this genre ever has kids regularly thinking that way??; to the villain single handedly beating off an attacker in one scene, and then simply running off terrified when the same attacker returns later - despite now having his henchman at his side to help, and this at the moment he is about to reach the goal he'd give anything to achieve and was his life's quest. And then there's the whole point of the movie - to find a piece of meteorite from a comet that will somehow prove who discovered the comet... yet it's never explained how that correlates as proof. That is, how can finding a piece of meteorite off a comet prove who discovered the comet?? This was the worst made film I've ever watched. It's a film that feels like someone with little experience in scriptwriting, editing or film construction refused to take any input or advice. That said, the acting was mostly quite good and the overall plot idea is good too.