Awful is the appropriate word to describe August Rush

Rating: 2/10 (2 January 2009)

Normally I watch a movie to the end before deciding how to evaluate it. But not for August Rush. It was too painful to go more than halfway. Each minute which went by, I kept telling myself to hang in there, no matter how boring and meaningless the movie is. Finally, I threw in the towel at the half way mark.
I gave this movie a rating of 2 only because of Keri Russell, the only salvaging element in the first half. And there is a nice but short piece with Terrence Howard. Without these two, this movie is a 1, especially Freddie Highmore. His agent should be more careful in placing him into films or his career will be destroyed at practically its beginning.
The story hops around aimlessly and never develops any empathy for any of the characters. It left me with: who cares? over and over until I gave up. Writers take notice. It is your job to get the audience to care. You missed badly, wasting precious time with boring and meaningless filling of the screen time with nothing.