Soft and squidgy

Rating: 6/10 (11 November 2016)

There is a certain sweetness in Bruce Willis' engagement with the young lad in this bit of old hokum that kept me adhered for most of it. There's a sensitivity around the boy that borders on sentimentality, and if there were meant be be scary bits they passed me by. If I was a kid I'd really want Bruce to be my doctor. Perfectly benign fare to pass a dull afternoon, and I think devotees of Willis will get their fill. There's less plausibility in the other characters and the screenplay seems to reflect this in the way the pair seem estranged from the rest of the world somehow. As I said, there's little real scares here and I'd call it a kind of drama fantasy than a biting thriller. Perhaps it's a bad sign but I couldn't help noticing the period fashions, the pre-internet innocence, it is particularly but quaintly dated.