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- 2014
- PG-13
- Image Entertainment
- 1 h 40 m
- 2014
- PG-13
- Image Entertainment
- 1 h 40 m
Summary Small-town fry cook Odd Thomas (Anton Yelchin) is an ordinary guy with a paranormal secret: he sees dead people, everywhere. When a creepy stranger appears with an entourage of ghostly bodachs - predators who feed on pain and portend mass destruction – Odd knows that his town is in serious trouble. Teaming up with his sweetheart Stormy...
Directed By: Stephen Sommers
Written By: Dean R. Koontz
- 2014
- PG-13
- Image Entertainment
- 1 h 40 m
- 2014
- PG-13
- Image Entertainment
- 1 h 40 m
Odd Thomas
45
7.5
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Summary Small-town fry cook Odd Thomas (Anton Yelchin) is an ordinary guy with a paranormal secret: he sees dead people, everywhere. When a creepy stranger appears with an entourage of ghostly bodachs - predators who feed on pain and portend mass destruction – Odd knows that his town is in serious trouble. Teaming up with his sweetheart Stormy...
Directed By: Stephen Sommers
Written By: Dean R. Koontz
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
45
9% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
73% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
18% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
45
9% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
73% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
18% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Odd Thomas is a much better film than it's non-release would suggest. Hopefully one day it'll find it's audience and people will appreciate it for something other than just being better than "Phantoms."
Odd Thomas is at its best when it’s presenting — rather than commenting upon or explaining — juxtapositions of the wholesome and the supernatural.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 79 User Ratings
7.5
72% Positive
57 Ratings
57 Ratings
22% Mixed
17 Ratings
17 Ratings
6% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 79 User Ratings
7.5
72% Positive
57 Ratings
57 Ratings
22% Mixed
17 Ratings
17 Ratings
6% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
loved this film.
i can't wait for the sequel
plot twists were great
romantic, action packed, supernatural, fest of fun, horror and action.
All the family loved this movie.
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Yelchin is agreeably offbeat and convincingly two-fisted in the role, and Sommers, who’s always had a knack for fast-paced action with a light, comic touch, provides a few entertaining scenes here and there. Unfortunately, the horrific stuff in Odd Thomas seems gorily incompatible with the film’s otherwise breezy screenplay.
In adapting Dean Koontz's series, Sommers nails the hero but bungles the world-building.
Sommers attempts to glue it all together with a raffish all-in-fun tone (despite some gory moments and unpleasant conceits), but the pic is neither witty nor macabre enough to pull off Koontz’s balance of elements in cinematic terms.
Sommers’ typically hyperactive touch robs the material of most of its charm, placing way too much emphasis on Koontz’s goofy plot, and making Odd a bland paranormal cousin to Guy Ritchie’s ass-kicking Sherlock Holmes.
Yelchin is an immensely likable actor who does what he can, but his charm isn’t enough to save this awkwardly worded — and paced — wannabe thriller.
I enjoyed the slowly revealed mystery and Odd's supernatural gifts. However, some of the side character acting was not amazing, and the ending was disappointing in clichéd ways.
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Odd Thomas – which never saw a public US release and is presently available on Netflix – plays like the pilot of a prime time TV show. There is nothing offensive presented, some of the more violent action occurs offscreen or via obstructed views, there is a little gallows humor, it occasionally dips its visual toes into ever-so-slightly mature waters (a little gore, Timlin in her underwear, etc.), its characters and locations are memorable and intriguing enough to consider a return trip, and the epilogue leaves the door wide open for future installments. I wish it had been a TV pilot because it is far better suited to that media.
I don’t know that any future installments will ever happen (regardless of screen size), but if they don’t, this installment is just enough quirky fun while it lasts.
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An almost solid movie horribly tainted by godawful effects. If the effects were at least just alright I could have given it a 7 because of the solid script and cast but, I can't do that. If they do a sequel, I hope they improve upon these effects.
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Awards
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
