A good emotional true life story

Rating: 7/10 (7 February 2017)

This film has been nominated for best picture at the 2017 Oscars so I thought I would give it a watch and I did enjoy this film. The premise of this film sees a young boy's journey after he goes missing in India and ends up in Australia 25 years later. Dev Patel plays the older version of the kid in this film and he is really good in this film, he gives a very emotional performance that makes you really buy his characters situation and makes you care about it. Nicole Kidman and David Wenham play his adopted Australian parents in this film and they both give good performances. Kidman especially gives a strong performance and her chemistry with Patel is really good and you buy her characters development throughout the film. Rooney Mara plays his love interest in the film and i thought she did a good job in the film adding a bit of life to patel's life and i thought at first their relationship worked. Also the kid actors did a pretty decent job in the film for what they are needed to do. The story of this film has some great emotional tones to it as you see this person's story as he tries to be accepted with his life despite his past. However, I did find the first 40 minutes focusing on his childhood to be pretty boring and slow paced and I feel like they could have been used more effectively as flashbacks for Patel's character as the film progresses. The script also has some really good dramatic dialogue that helps make some of the situations more intense and heartfelt then they would have been. However, the film tries to use comedy at some points, especially at the start of Mara and patel's romance and it didn't work at all and hurt the film a little bit. The style of the film has some excellent emotion and if you don't get close to tears at a point in this film I do question your emotions. But as mentioned before I feel like the first half of the film was poorly paced and could have been done better in my opinion. Overall this is a good film with allot of emotion involved in it that may be worth a watch if you like true stories with emotion in it.