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Directed By
George Ratliff
Written By:
George Ratliff, David Gilbert
Cast:
Sam Rockwell, Vera Farmiga, Celia Weston, Dallas Roberts, Michael McKean, Tom Bloom, Rufus Collins, Daniel Jenkins, Linda Larkin, Jodie Markell, Haviland Morris, Joey Sontz, Bryant Pearson, Nancy Giles, Jacob Kogan, Randy Ryan, Ezra Barnes, Alex Draper, Nicholas Guidry, Patrick Henney, Kirby Mitchell, Darrill Rosen, Stephanie Roth Haberle, Evan Seligman, Antonia Stout
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Joshua (2007)
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Movie Review by Zara 
June 4th, 2009
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The kid who stars in this movie, in case he looks familiar to you, played the child version of Spock in the new STAR TREK movie. And he is a lifeless little doll of a child, looking like a more well-mannered version of that child actor who starred in the PROBLEM CHILD movies. Except this problem child is psychotic and the way that they play it out in the movie isn't funny, it isn't scary and it isn't entertainment. It's brutally boring, creepy and flat out mean-spirited.
I normally really like Sam Rockwell in most of the stuff that he does but when he gets into these depressing stories where the characters all seem interwoven and yet detached from one another, it makes me sad. I hate to see a guy who's essentially very good at what he does doing it over and over again in bad movies. And this is a bad movie. It's hoping like hell that you're going to feel as if it's ROSEMARY'S BABY all over again, creeping you out because kids aren't supposed to do this sort of crap, but when you make the mother and uncle legitimately mentally unstable and then play off the kid like he's a weird little joke, it's not funny. There are kids out in the world who exist like this, real sociopaths who murder their families, their friends, with no remorse or emotion.
I just can't bring myself to consider making a movie with that as its centerpiece and then debating if it's entertaining. I'd point you to watch FUNNY GAMES instead, a movie which makes fun of the American obsession with movies like JOSHUA. A society which derives sick thrills from horrible realities until someone mocks them over it and then they jump all over the director of the movie that actually "gets" it.
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