Review: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Finally got to see the movie! I saw it on the shelf at the video rental place and to be honest I had kind of forgotten about it. I saw it and my mind was like yessssss. Then I took it home and got very excited to watch it.

Most of you probably know from my recent review of the book that the movie is based on the book by Jonathan Safran Foer. It was an amazing book. So, if you'd like a summary on the movie, check out the book review, since they are the same story.

OR THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO BE. Nah, I'm just being dramatic. It was pretty close in the beginning, but then it started to drift. The part that I didn't like was that Mr. Black's role was pretty much replaced by the renter. Mr. Black was barely even in the movie. I thought this change was unnecessary and disappointing.

Then the ending or the movie was basically fabricated. For instance, Oskar makes this book, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, (how clever, I wonder where they got that). That wasn't in the book book.

It was still a pretty good movie though. It was a little slow, but I don't think it would have made (or should have been) and action packed thriller. It was very emotional. I think Thomas Horn (Oskar) did a wonderful job. I had wondered if all those things that go on inside Oskars head would come across on screen, and they did. It was narrated, but even without that, he was such a curious character. I think the whole cast did a great job. I hope to see Thomas Horn in future films.