Cloak & Dagger started off fine. Davey Osborne (Henry Thomas) with his runaway imagination made the most mundane activities fun. On one of his "missions" with his friend Kim (Christina Nigra) Davey witnessed a murder. The man murdered gave him a video game with some top secret information on it. Yeah, I didn't think that was too smart either. You just got shot and now you're going to endanger a little kid by giving him the thing you got shot over.
Davey didn't need any help interpreting the recent events. He took it as an international plot and he was smack dab in the middle of it.
With a movie involving kids escaping adults there is a little suspended disbelief. There's suspended disbelief with adults in action movies so it's no different with kids. Davey spent the movie escaping and trying to get adults to believe him. It was fun and frustration free until the end.
The bad guys sought to get rid of Davey and Kim, which makes sense. What didn't make sense was that they would do it with enough explosives to blow up a city block. 1.) That's overkill and 2.) That all but ensures that the law will not let the matter go. At some point, which we don't see, they rigged Kim's walkie-talkie with plastic explosives. It was totally unnecessary except to build up some artificial suspense.
But O.K., Kim is walking around with a bomb that has to be disposed of or disarmed. When Davey comes to the realization that Kim has a bomb he seemed to be perpetually sidetracked by other things. Dude, she has a bomb on her person that's going to detonate at any moment. Focus!
Even when he got the bomb from Kim he seemed totally stymied about what to do. Of course, no one believed him about the bomb because of his overactive imagination, but I'm sure he could've thought of something to do other than take it on the plane and try to disarm it by just pulling wires.
Inevitably, everything worked out. The bomb went off killing the elderly spies and his dad was his hero. Not the ideal finish, but not bad enough to ruin the whole movie.
Davey didn't need any help interpreting the recent events. He took it as an international plot and he was smack dab in the middle of it.
With a movie involving kids escaping adults there is a little suspended disbelief. There's suspended disbelief with adults in action movies so it's no different with kids. Davey spent the movie escaping and trying to get adults to believe him. It was fun and frustration free until the end.
The bad guys sought to get rid of Davey and Kim, which makes sense. What didn't make sense was that they would do it with enough explosives to blow up a city block. 1.) That's overkill and 2.) That all but ensures that the law will not let the matter go. At some point, which we don't see, they rigged Kim's walkie-talkie with plastic explosives. It was totally unnecessary except to build up some artificial suspense.
But O.K., Kim is walking around with a bomb that has to be disposed of or disarmed. When Davey comes to the realization that Kim has a bomb he seemed to be perpetually sidetracked by other things. Dude, she has a bomb on her person that's going to detonate at any moment. Focus!
Even when he got the bomb from Kim he seemed totally stymied about what to do. Of course, no one believed him about the bomb because of his overactive imagination, but I'm sure he could've thought of something to do other than take it on the plane and try to disarm it by just pulling wires.
Inevitably, everything worked out. The bomb went off killing the elderly spies and his dad was his hero. Not the ideal finish, but not bad enough to ruin the whole movie.