Sunday, 24 November 2013

Lacks brains

HairBrained (2013)

Directed by Billy Kent this film stars Alex Wolff, Brendan Fraser, Julia Garner and Elisabeth Hower. A 14 year old genius gets rejected by Harvard and ends up at a much lower ranked school where he makes friends with a mature student.

There is not a lot of originality or depth in the plot of this film that takes it's structure from the standard sports film basing the plot around a inter college mastermind competition. While there are plenty of decent hooks for character development none of them are capitalised on and there is only the occasional moment of comedy. What this film needed to succeed was a lot more personality but it fails to deliver much of anything.


2/5

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