Adopted

This movie is a joke.. but the only problem is it's not supposed to be!

The Good Son meets Chucky, meets Orphan... lol...

The ENTIRE plot is pretty much given away in the trailer.. though it is so formulaic and predictable you would've guessed it anyways!

Its only redeeming quality is that the production value is actually not bad for a movie likely filmed on an iPhone. The acting, is INCREDIBLY bad, especially that little kid, who is easily the worst child actor I've ever seen in a movie! I have seen scraped together YouTube movies that have more of an interesting plot and better acting than this movie. I even noticed they use YouTube devices like the BOOM sound effect when someone says something "dramatic".

It is actually entertaining in a way... In that you're laughing continually at just how bad this movie is!

OK, from the outset, it was clear that this was a low-budget, indie pic, so I watched with grace to see what the end product would be. The plot is clearly not original--which is OK. The premise and backstory were clear from the outset, although I'm not sure making the adopted child's backstory so blatant in the very beginning hurt or helped. The script was OK, better than the acting. The acting...? Well, this is, as mentioned, an obviously low-budget project, so I won't comment beyond that. The pacing was fine. The direction was...well, everything about a film is ultimately the responsibility of the director. I appreciate the director's commitment to this film. The film's score wasn't bad. Everything mentioned thus far can be forgiven and even appreciated in a way. But the ENDING...many-a-film has been totally destroyed by its ending. And the last two or three minutes of ADOPTED falls into this category. The decision made by a key character at that point was entire moronic and served only to setup the entirely unsatisfactory finish, that's it. It otherwise made no sense whatsoever and insulted the intelligence of the viewer.

Kudos to Jayden Aguirre, who played Dylan. He managed a performance that was truly chilling at some points. Better direction would have helped at point where he didn't deliver.

I have a fondness for low-budget indie films. I watch a lot of them, in fact. ADOPTED, I can gladly say, is not on my list of worst films. And I can truly appreciate the effort behind it.

So this is a pretty stupid movie. Terrible acting, ridiculous plot, wooden dialogue, etc. That said the movie was entertaining enough to keep my interest. It plays like a low budget Lifetime type of thriller. The movie is similar to Orphan but not nearly as well written, produced, or acted. Its a shame really because with just a couple of tweaks this could have been a legitimately good movie. I enjoyed watching it just to see how bad it would get and in that context it didn't disappoint! This cheesy entertainment value is why I gave it two stars rather than one star. I'm not sure how this movie is rated so high, perhaps those associated with the movie are giving it high ratings? This is not worthy of a 7.0 IMDB rating! YMMV!

This movie was'nt all that bad .But the acting was terrible and the dialogue was cheesy. For starters the parents that adopted the young boy in this film were so corny i could'nt wait for the little boy to off them myself . Plus it seemed a bit unrealistic the main character whose supposed to be 10 years old is a calculating psycopathic killer and a crack shot with a hand gun. Especially the part where he shoots his original parents both between the eyes and then burns down the house in broad daylight ? What nobody in the area saw that ? A bit hard to believe. My hats of to the main character playing the child psycopath character Jayden Aguirre . I actually gave it 3 stars because i liked the scenery the California sunshine and all that.

This movie wasn't great but was entertaining enough to keep my interest. This was a basic done before plot structure . Killer foster kid deceives everyone into thinking he is an innocent kid before he starts killing. This was sort of a Mikey rip off without the clever kills. This kid was too obvious and sloppy as depicted in the end. It started out really well and kept my attention. The problem was they used guns too much they were definitely going for a California liberal anti gun message but instead created a message about proper gun storage ( which I support) and if that was the intention I give it one more star. Anyhow the movie started out good but fell flat in the 3rd act. They should have been more creative with the story. This movie was a decent watch but could have been better.