BoardChiri Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Ricardo Daly The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

katm-37105 This film is another example of an excellent play of John Cusack, who's a really professional actor. Here he plays the role of a widower, a writer, who wants to adopt the child, who's not like the others. He embodied the role of a single parent perfectly, though the film is a bit overextended, it is being watched easily. The plot is rather unusual, because there're not many films that show personalities of such children as Dennis and we know little of them. I think this film is about patience and stamina, because building a relationship with this kind of child wasn't easy for the character of John Cusack. The idea is that it can't be easy to be a parent, especially of an adopted child. It is thought provoking and sometimes touching, though it's a drama, there're no tragedies, that's why it's recommended to be watched in family.

wikanet This film will definitely be among my favorites. The film is incredibly touching and funny. And these contrasting emotions very harmoniously replace each other in the film. Funny antics of the main characters are replaced by arguments about human nature. The plot line dives into the problems and difficulties of interaction of the main characters, so that each time they emerge from them, rejoicing at the oxygen and lightness that comes with every new frontier overcome. The film is not only about the child needing a parent to understand this world, but also about the fact that the parent needs a child to understand himself and not forget who he is, despite the arsenal of masks that are customary to wear in society. Dialogues of heroes, even the most frivolous, are permeated with truths and clever conclusions. Many of the phrases from this film are worthy to become "winged". The film is full of the smallest charming details. Especially I liked the soundtrack Guster - "Satellite", playing during the Martian dance of David and Dennis.

anufrieva_nastya Wanting to experience fatherhood, a man (John Cusack) adopts a youngster (Bobby Coleman) who has an unusual crisis of identity, believing he is from Mars, and trouble arises when the man, who devotes himself to his strange son, begins to believe that the boy is indeed an alien. "I'm not human," little Dennis says at one point in "Martian Child." So he believes. The lonely orphan has convinced himself that he was not abandoned by his parents, but arrived here from Mars. To protect himself against the sun, he walks around inside a cardboard box with a slit cut for his eyes and wears a weight belt around his waist to keep himself from drifting up into the sky. At no point during the film does anyone take mercy on the kid and explain that the sun is much more pitiless on Mars, and the gravity much lower. And it is perhaps there that Martian Child asks us to suspend our disbelief, for the version of "troubled" that Dennis represents in the film is the cute and cloying kind, with the boy exhibiting the sort of annoying problems that drive David to distraction at worst and amuse him at best. We all know that in reality a kid with the emotional problems and background that Dennis has would exhibit much more severe behavioral disorders beyond simply making up his own language and doing funny Martian dances. One such fantasy, of course, marks Dennis as a visiting alien from the planet Mars -- a being with special powers who is on a journey to observe mankind and then return to his home world with the information that he has gleaned. Obviously an outgrowth of the emotional abuse and alienation the boy has endured in his young life, the story nonetheless rings a little too true when some of his "powers" seem to actually work. Easily chalked up to coincidence, these events nonetheless give David pause. David sees a kindred soul in Dennis, for he was alienated himself as a kid and often turned to his own imagination to amuse himself in lieu of friends. He of course learned to channel that experience into a successful career as a writer, and one of his sci-fi books is now being turned into a big "Harry Potter in space" sort of movie. So even as he decides to adopt Dennis, David is also struggling with the challenge of writing a sequel to that book. Soon he is faced with not just dealing with his troubled young charge, but also with a bad case of writer's block. Parents need to know that although there's very little in the way of language, sex, and violence in this well-acted family drama, it does deal with some serious themes -- including death (of both humans and pets) and abandonment -- that are on the heavy side for young viewers, who may need guidance understanding what they see. Parents are shown discussing their frustrations with their kids and yelling at them, and kids are shown cruelly teasing a main character and calling him "weird." Some social drinking, but only among adults. Still, this isn't a film about planetary science but about love. Dennis attracts the attention of a lonely science-fiction writer named David (John Cusack), a recent widower who can't get the cardboard box out of his mind and goes back to the orphanage one day with some suntan cream. Eventually, almost against his own will, he asks Dennis to come home with him for a test run and decides to adopt him. The movie is the sentimental, very sentimental, story of how that goes. This is not to say "Martian Child" lacks good qualities. Young Bobby Coleman plays Dennis as consistent, stubborn and suspicious, and Amanda Peet has a warm if predictable role as the woman in David's life who starts out as best friend and ends up where female best friends often do, in his arms. Martian Child wants to make us cry. It nearly made me cry. This is an exercise in shameless and inept emotional manipulation. Still, Martian Child manages to make powerful statements about a person's ability to love even in the midst of personal suffering. And it speaks of the need to embrace the innocents who have been beaten down and injured by our oftentimes painful world.

lenakasatova I want to write a review on the film by Menno Meyjes "Martian Child". This film was shot in 2013. The main actors are John Cusack, Bobby Coleman, Amanda Peet, Sophie Okedo, Joan Cusack. The Genre is drama, family, comedy. The main idea of this film is the theme of adopted children and their relationship with new parents, as well as the theme of love and understanding of their children. The film is very close to problems of a real life. Many families in our time are forced to take children from the orphanage, but not all cope with their upbringing and accept them as relatives. This film caused me exclusively positive emotions. The film is suitable for family viewing and will be of interest to almost everyone. This is a very kind film. The director tells us a story about a young writer David, who has dreamed of a child for many years, but his beloved woman died, and they never manage to have a child. The tragedy of the loss of love pushes David to take a child from the orphanage. When he comes to an orphanage, he chooses an unusual child, a strange, problematic child. The boy's name is Dennis and he does not go out into the light sitting in a cardboard box during the day, he tells everyone that he is from Mars and sunlight can kill him. David takes responsibility to cope with the psychological problems of the boy and adopts him. He sees in him a native soul, the boy was once very badly injured, his soul hurts like the soul of the protagonist, which was injured by a huge loss. No one understands him, even his own sister. They do not understand why he needs such a burden and responsibility. Schools do not want such a child. Teachers assure that the child is not able to communicate with other children and steals their things. But David struggles to get inside Dennis's inner world and help him. In my opinion, the film is very exciting. It is filled with funny moments and moments, when you want to cry from happiness. Music corresponds to the content. The play of actors is great. There is the moment where the boy performs the dance with the music, this moment also causes only positive emotions. I recommend everyone to watch this movie. You can get together with the whole family and have a good time watching a wonderful soul movie. I want to review this movie again and again.