Bones

I'm so happy when I sometimes find a hidden gem in all the trash available today. I try to watch everything with an open mind and ignore bad reviews in order to make up my own mind.

Bones turned out to be much better than I anticipated and I was surprisingly drawn into the lives of the characters from the very beginning. Jimmy Bennett shines as always, and his acting does get better and better with every movie he's in. The story was well written and the characters didn't need a long back story in order for you to identify with them. The soundtrack suited the tone of the movie and added to the gripping storyline.

No movie is perfect and Bones does have it's faults, but in my opinion, the good way outnumbers the bad in this title.

I wanted to like this because it takes me back to a time when life was easy. Love period piece movies. So when I saw Zakk Wylde was in it I knew I had to check it out. While Zakk is the man, a funny guy and incredible guitarist the fact comes down to he can't act. Sometimes the movie rambled along with dialogue that was improvised as they went along. Retakes maybe could have happened a little more. Without giving anything away Zakk plays the uncle of a guitar prodigy, who he feels is wasting his talent when he should be out west starting a band, I know, silly. Zakk's character felt he missed out on his chance to be Ozzy's guitarist, see what it did there? So he tells this kid to chase his dreams as the next guitar god. The kid has some things happen along the way and at the end Zakk and a young girl appear to do what would only be considered...weird.

To put it simply it really is a bad movie which is a shame as I wanted to like it. Nothing more I can say except thankfully Zakk still plays music and he is much better on soundtracks.

I would love someone to remake this movie, as I believe it has the potential to be a great film. Overall the movie seems disjointed and rushed. Character development was practically non-existent. The acting was terrible, which to be honest wouldn't have bothered me as much, if the editing had been better. I will give it high marks for being gritty and fairly realistic, other than the acting. Definitely not your usual Hollywood teen movie. One other thing that really bothered me was the fact that the movie tried to pass off a California city (dry river and all), for Long Island, NY. The entire movie I found myself thinking "what are these Guido's doing in Compton?".