Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Listonixio Fresh and Exciting

Freeman This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

adonis98-743-186503 Author Rudyard Kipling and his wife search for their 18-year-old son after he goes missing during World War I. My Boy Jack has for sure it's very good moments and if there's one good thing about it was definitely Kim Cattrall's perfomance as Mrs. Kipling unfortunately tho the film is made for TV and that shows since most of the drama feels way over the top with some perfomances as well, Daniel Radcliffe does pretty much nothing since he was still working those Harry Potter movies at that time and the overall movie feels cheap, muddle, boring and meh. (4/10)

TxMike I found this on DVD from my public library.David Haig, who stars as Rudyard Kipling, is one of the Kipling experts. He has studied him, wrote and starred in the stage play, and now credited as the writer and star for this, the movie. All of it is fact-based and, considering Haig's participation, likely to be very close to what actually happened.Daniel Radcliffe (of Harry Potter fame) was about 18 during filming and he plays the son, Jack Kipling, who was 17, about to turn 18. The times were tense in 1914 and Germany was threatening the peace in Europe and the British Isles. When the King of England declared war, the rush was on to get as many able-bodied men in the service, the survival of England depended on it.Jack was a peculiar case because he had very poor uncorrected vision, and the military was reluctant to take him. But dad, the famous author, pulled strings and young Jack was trained as an infantry officer.Young Jack was a brave and competent soldier, unfortunately he and most other were obliterated in a battle in France. But the story of Jack and his bravery, in the face of strained family dynamics is a good one. Kim Cattrall is good as the American wife and mother, Caroline Kipling. And Carey Mulligan is good as the older sister, Elsie Kipling.

csipiorski Saw this movie on PBS, in passing one day at my girlfriend's apartment (she doesn't have cable, so you make do.) What initially caught my eye about this movie was the fact that Dan Ratcliffe was in it. Harry Potter? Trying to do a break out role, perhaps so.However, in all seriousness this was quite a good movie. Though parts were conflicting at times I found myself getting into this film. Specifically because you never see many good World War I movies. In my opinion Daniel Ratcliffe succeeds in breaking from his role as the wand waving wizard and takes on the role of as young Leftenant Jack Kipling. And yet the main message is a bit confusing. His mother and father, plus Bert, have mixed feelings about him going to war and in the end you see that they come to accept it, cause they have to. Still what are we to understand as the end message? War is neither honorable nor glamorous? Don't believe in Nationalism? Be all you can be? Momma's don't let your boys grow up to be British soldiers?Still it was a good film to see.

ellerveira I found Haig's performance over the top...too intense and aggressive. Clearly he wanted to show Kipling's zest for empire and war, but he overdid it. Radcliffe on the other hand gives a controlled performance that reaches its climax in his death scene. He was masterful there, even jerking some tears, I bet, from the most hard hearted. The kid (he's only 18) really can act given the right material. He also can be terribly funny as he was in Extras. It would be nice to see him in some good comic material. I find his acting in the Potter series okay but it is subordinate to the special effects and doesn't really give him a chance to show the range of what he can do. I think his best performances have been in David Copperfield (where his genuine innocence was perfect for the part), in Extras (real comic tour de force that), and now in My Boy Jack.