Written by Hombre Divertido
Rarely has so much potential been squandered on poor writing and poor directing. The premise was solid, an excellent cast was assembled, and said cast gave good performances considering what they were given, yet this Oliver Twist meets Serendipity with a splash of Searching for Bobby Fisher thrown in results in 113 minutes of painful schlock.
Lyla (Keri Russell) who is an accomplished cellist meets Louis (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) the up-and-coming rock star at a party. They have a one-night stand that results in her pregnancy. Unfortunately they are not able to meet up the next day and are incapable of finding each other again for more than eleven years. Don’t ask why. No brains involved in this production, and thus none allowed in the theatre.
Prior to the birth, Lyla gets in an accident and is told by her father (William Sadler) that she lost the baby. Actually the baby did survive, but Grandpa put the kid in an orphanage so as not to interfere with her daughter’s budding career.
So the child grows up in the orphanage, and Lyla and Louis both give up playing music due to the unhealed emotional wounds associated with the loss of their child and love respectively. Nope, no questions allowed here either.
We pick up our story meeting Evan (Freddie Highmore) who is eleven and has grown up in an orphanage. He is not only the odd kid amongst his peers, but believes his parents are alive. He eventually runs away to the big city where he is taken in by the Wizard
(Robin Williams), who has the Fagin role in managing a group of parentless street performers. Evan’s musical gifts are discovered, developed, and eventually exploited, by the Wizard who renames Evan “August Rush” for marketing purposes. Luckily Evan/August manages to break free and ends up at Julliard. Yes, Julliard, where he magically becomes enrolled. Try to let it go.
Article comments
1 - BENONI
I FEEL SO UNCONFORTABLE WITH THE UNBALANCED AND UNFAIR COMMENT ON AUGUST RUSH.THE FACT THAT ONE CAN PREDICT THE TO BE CAN IN NO WAY MAKE A MOVIE BAD.IF SO THE CINEMA WORLD WOUID BE ONE BIG BAD COLLECTION AS WE ARE AND WILL BE ABLE TO PREDICT ENDINGS JUST RIGHTLY...TIME AND AGAIN.THE COMMENT EFFORTED TO BLACKEN THE GOOD SIDES BY TRYING TO BRING QUESTIONS AND YET PREFER NOT TO QUESTION THEM....THERE LIE THE PROBLEM AS ANSWERS ARE TO BE RENDERED FOR THOSE WHO KNOCK.....AS IN ANY LOVE STORIES THERE WILL BE PARTS
WHERE VIEWERS ARE ENTERTAINED BY EMPLOYING THERE OWN IMAGINATIONS MAKING THE MOVIE TO BE SEEN FROM VARYING ANGELS......USE UR IMAGINATION TO FILL THE GAPS...IT IS NO MORE A SPOON FEEDING WORLD.