Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Odd Thomas

Actors:  Anton Yelchin , Willem Dafoe, Addison Timlin, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Nico Tortorella, Shuler Hensley, Kyle McKeever
Rating:  9 out of 10, A movie that totally snuck up on me.  A fairly low budget horror/thriller featuring a clairvoyant cook with supernatural powers to see the dead. He must confront a serious threat to his desert home town and uses his power to track down the evil dudes.  This really shouldn’t work but it does because of a truly engaging cast led by Yelchin, ably supported by Dafoe and Timlin.  The fresh take of the police actually buying into the mystical powers and using them was interesting.   A total surprise at how well this movie was and why I’d never heard of it before.

MVP:  Yelchin effortlessly carries the movie as Odd, seems capable of much bigger things

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