Christina Reviews *The Good Son*

          Mark Evans (Elijah Wood) goes to stay with his aunt and uncle after his mother dies.  While there, he comes face to face with a blond-haired devil who calls himself his cousin.

          Macauley Culkin plays a bad seed in this 1993 non-classic.  Apparently he was trying to shake off the stigma of his role as Kevin McCallister and the limits it placed on him, artistically, at the tender age of 12.  You can’t exactly carve out your place in acting history alongside such masters as Robert De Niro and Marlon Brando if all you’re going to do in your movies is set booby traps and die by bee sting.  So he plays a villain in this, and he does an adequate job, I suppose.  I wouldn’t say there was anything earth-shattering about his performance, though.

         From what I’ve read, the screenplay was written by Ian McEwan.  Interesting.

          I thought this movie was OK.  It was nothing special.  But for some reason I can’t bring myself to get rid of the VHS.  It’s one of those guilty pleasures, I guess.