A Mute; a Son; and a Mysterious Key in 'Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close'.

There is an exponentially growing list of films that in fat chances can be at least "good", but in sad and invariable reality, dulls down its gleam by forgetting a handful of detalyé. 'Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close' (and Saddening) is unfortunately a probable candidate for that particular exponentially growing list. And my redundancy rises to the surface.

A mute; a son; and a mysterious key. We are cyclically prancing with these three through the film.

Stephen Daldry is working behind the camera in this family drama which plot centers around Oskar (a tearing Thomas Horn, I admit) whose father (Tom Hanks) died in the 9/11 incident. Grieving like his mother (Sandra Bullock) whom he decided to keep distance from, Oskar founds a key in his father's closet.

The key suggests that his father has some sort of a message, Oskar thought. And the kid is genius enough to figure that out. He searches the Big Apple for a lock that fits with his father's key. Along the journey, he meets a mute man that helps him throughout.

There are events that are implausible. Yes. It's no surprise.

What surprised me is how child-actor Thomas Horn played with my emotions like a rubric's. In my personal experience, Horn's young and authentic performance does puzzles you off and in the end makes you feel at least, complete.

But akin to almost every movie review I write, a movie is rated not in its actor but the material as a whole. The child therefore doesn't, what ever intensity his acting might have, salvage the film entirely.

A half-amusing half-depressing point of the drama flick is when Oskar meets the renter, the mute man who uses his one hand to answer 'yes' and the other 'no'. Their relationship is in my opinion an inviting in type however does not end to somewhere sensible.

The introduction (in short) of Oskar's old mute friend could be completely omitted--this complicates the flick and cheapens it.

'Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close' is a vivid potential, however as it attempts to gleam its shiniest, it dulls down when it forgets that a precious gem is of the very subtle glare only.