Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

"The death of my seven-year-old brother when I was nine remains a painful and haunting memory. My parents did not know how to cope with the loss of their child and the entire family experienced indescribable pain." (Jay Rosenblatt) I had read about Rosenblatt's short films, but the recent Museum of Modern Art screening of his newest work was my first chance to see one. Rosenblatt works by re-assembling found footage - old educational and corporate training movies, mostly - into poetic collages. For Phantom Limb, he weaves in his own family's amateur movies to create a very personal rumination on the childhood loss of his younger brother. There are parts of this picture that, were I to describe them, would sound very tough to watch, and others that might seem dull. Yet I was in awe for every one of the 28 minutes, and the MoMA crowd was spellbound.