“EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE” My rating: B (Opening Jan. 20)
129 minutes | MPAA rating: PG-13
I was prepared to be irritated by “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.” And I was.
This is a movie about a too-cute kid (he may or may not be autistic) who after losing his father in the 9/11 attack goes on a borough-to-borough scavenger hunt throughout NYC, attempting to solve the final conundrum left by his puzzle-posing papa.
This yarn has an off-the-charts potential for preciousness.
And yet by the end, Stephen Daldry’s film adaptation of Jonanthan Safran Foer’s novel had me by the throat and the tear ducts.
This puts your humble critic in an uncomfortable position. My left brain is telling me, “Aren’t you ashamed?” My right brain is saying, “Yeah, but it feels so good.”
