I’ll be quick, and as this is a PG film, I’ll be lenient too…
Writing an “original” script nowadays is hard enough. Directing it in an “original” way is even harder. Oliver Daly, writer/director of the short film Miles (2015), pens the script and directs its feature version, A-X-L. A kid and (not) his robotic dog’s adventure can be pretty much summarized as E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) meets Transformers (2007).
It’s a decent story, offering nothing much to its development or its characters with more holes than a Swiss cheese that a kid would scratch its head. I know women who would die to find out how, after 48 hours of running around, the makeup stays intact and the hair straight as an arrow. And I’ll sound like a broken record again, but… Producers… don’t hire only underwear models.
David S. Goyer has been a brilliant writer and producer for the past three decades and still is. I guess hit-and-miss is part of every job.
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I think I will give this one a miss