Ok, I am not really much of a Jennifer Garner fan. I haven't seen her in anything really good since she played the villain in "Juno". But, the plot of this intrigued me, as I though that there was going to be something of a plot twist near the end of the movie. But, this is a Disney movie. And what you see in the trailers is pretty much what you get. There are no real surprises here.
I did like the way that the movie started, in the present, with the story part being a flashback. It was a great way to pull the viewer in. However, from a storytelling perspective, there were a few issues I had with this film. So, the kid grew in the garden, but yet he knew social mannerism and spoke English. How would he know this?
And in the movie, he meets this very unique girl (played brilliantly by Odeya Rush). We never see her with her parents or any parents for that matter. I got the impression that she was an orphan. So it would make perfect sense if she was the one the parents adopted at the end of the movie, but instead they end up adopting a random Asian girl whom we never met in the movie whatsoever. If we had met her at some point in the movie, it would have made a bit more sense.
I don't feel we got enough character development from the secondary characters at all. With the adoptive parents, we got a good sense of who they were as people. But, the other people in their lives (family, co-workers, etc.) felt like they were just on screen to fill space.
This movie could have been a lot better, but the way the film "flowed" left a lot to be desired. I have seen enough "special child with unique gift" movies that I was hoping for something a bit more. I did not see anything special or innovative about this film, it was just okay.
Final Rating: C-
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