A touching tale

Rating: 7/10 (2 February 2017)

I will say while personally I don't find the move Oscar worthy in terms of best picture because lion feels like many similar movies of trying to find family again. I also feel that the pacing of the movie is rather slow and drags in the first half. However one of the benefits that the film has is great performances from dev Patel who plays Sharoo whose name in Hindu means lion and Nicole Kidman who plays his adopted mother sue. I will say what I found engaging abou t the film was how Sharoo was determined to find his biological mother after many years of being separated so she would know her son was doing well which was very touching.