a5c7b9f00b A father and son go on the run, pursued by the government and a cult drawn to the child&#39;s special powers. Alton Meyer is a boy unlike any other in the world with bizarrely powerful abilities and strange weaknesses. In the middle of the night, his father, Roy, spirits him away from the isolated cult that practically worships him and is determined to regain him at all costs. At the same time, Alton&#39;s abilities have been noticed by the US governmentwell and they are equally insistent on getting to the bottom of this mystery with Paul Sevier of the National Security Agency leading the Federal pursuit with his own questions. These rival hunts force father and son into a desperate run towards a looming date with destiny that could change everything. Have you ever sat through a movie with someone determined to point out all the things in the film that couldn&#39;t possibly be real? Like sitting through the wacky, throbbing Korean mock-horror epic &quot;The Host&quot; and having someone complain that there is no way a monster that big could live in a sewer–or in Kong, another complaining that there&#39;s no way any Gorilla could climb the Empire State Building! <br/><br/>I bring this up because it seems to be that many reviewers of this film are looking for something besides a good thriller, a tight mystery with clues strewn here and there but little definite plot until,the film continues, a willing viewer can easily get caught up in several kinds of espionage and cult subterfuge, one can get caught up in what I might call a Midnight Special,i.e. a film to watch for fun, to suspend one&#39;s disbelief so that the involvement is total.<br/><br/>The ingredients are here: the film has an independent streak, features five actors of compelling capability, several really frightening jump-out-of-your-seat moments, and enough likely intentional references to past films of a similar nature to echo past thrillsone runs away with the haunted, gifted child escaping and his parents. This isn&#39;t Manchester By The Sea, nor is it a cartoon–and doesn&#39;t intend to be. It&#39;s a roller coaster ride, a Midnight Special. For me it succeeds in spades. ever wondered how it felt like when listening to your granddads old stories and u had to listen to them no matter what cause of respect,thats the same feeling i got from watching this movie why does this movie have to look like a total HBO series drama… this movie i only watched cause of Kristen dunst. its the same boring feeling of nausea when your sick that you get to feel that way after finishing this movie<br/><br/>i had great expectation from the trailer and i was like wow but when you see the actual movie u realize u have truly wasted 115 minutes in hell don&#39;t expect this movie to be a fast track with lots of action type movie,its all about road trip to the Bermuda triangle type place where the boy goes to his final destination Way too serious and absolutely boringhellif your trying to watch color Grey turn into a rainbow color with miracle,but you will be disappointed Structureda low-key chase movie, unfolding with the dark urgency of a conspiracy thriller, living mostly not in your heart or even your mind but in the hairs on the back of your neck, "Midnight Special" actually emerges most resonantlyan almost mournful ode, or maybe a psalm, to the primal instincts of fatherhood.
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