Jurassic Light
Film critic Jason Evans is here to tell you everything you need to know about movies faster than a raptor can sneak up on you. His reviews are exactly 100 words long (because 99 would leave you unfulfilled, but 101 would be excessive). Here is his 100-word review of The End of Oak Street.
The Premise: The
year is 1982 and the Platt family are leading a pretty typical suburban American
life. Father Greg (Ewan McGreggor) is struggling at his job; mother Denise
(Anne Hathaway) is unfulfilled and trying to secretly write a book; while kids
Audrey (Maisy Stella) and Brian (Christian Convery) are just trying to fit in
at school. Their lives are upended when their neighborhood is somehow
transported back in time to the age of dinosaurs. They look on in horror as
their neighbors begin getting eaten. Can the family come together to somehow
survive and maybe find their way back to 1982? The film is written and directed
by David Robert Mitchell, who had a horror hit with It Follows.
The 100-words: This
film is a good time while sitting in the theater. There are some nice laughs
and plenty of edge-of-your-seat tension. Mitchell keeps things moving with
brisk pace. It captures a lot of dino vs. human magic of the better Jurassic
Park films. The entire film has a 80s-movie kind of sensibility. But, when the
lights come up and you start to really think about it, the script begins to
fall apart and the character motivations get whacky. The tonal shifts are also
quite jarring. It’s fine, but not special and I’m skeptical this will last in
our collective memories.
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