Decent coming of age story

Rating: 7/10 (31 May 2016)

There were many positives of this movie, the biggest being Jamie Bell's performance. What a wonderful representation of a boy who isn't understood by his loved ones but supersedes this and goes on to success. Wonderful acting by all the main parts, especially Jamie who accomplished this very young.
My biggest blight with this film is that I wish the side story with Billy and Michael was much greater. There was little intimacy between the two of them and I felt like at the end of the film it was still ambiguous as to what sexual orientation Billy held. Any bloke can get a quick kiss on the cheek but I felt these two never shared anything special enough in the film to warrant a romantic relationship between the two.