The World Around Igby

I'm confused. Very confused. We have Igby, the main character, whose parents chose to have him born on the 29th of February, so that his birthday would only be celebrate once every four years. And he has a friend, Mark, who was told that he has 'three white blood cells' left in his immune system. And then we have some thug, and a random old man. By the end of my first watch, I just could not see where this was going. And by the second watch, I shook my head.

OK, let's go through some of the points I have mentioned in the first paragraph. Igby was born on the 29th of February, hated by his parents FROM THE START. Why? I just could not figure it out. If there was some sort of reason, perhaps I could understand and sympathise with Igby, but I don't. And instead, questions swarmed around my head, the most obvious being why couldn't he be put up for adoption? Next, we have Mark. Three white blood cells? Really? Who gets told that when they have HIV? Oh, and there's some random thug who we don't get any insight to whatsoever, which makes the ending rather dull. In addition to this, there is also an incredibly random old man. Seriously, random. We were never properly introduced to him, and all we can do is PRESUME. All the movie gave was that Igby had hostile feelings towards his parents. It gave no reason for this, and it did not say how serious the hostility between the two sides were, and so it really confused me why Igby decided to kill his father!

But there were a couple of nice touches. Mark gave his 'three white blood cells' names. Sympathy. Some of the camera angles were good. Neat. It kept my attention for the majority of the film. Entertainment. And there were many other small nice touches which both Buzvonlurt and Wannabe should be credited for. Both the directing and the script works in some places, and I was pleasantly surprised in quite a few scenes. Despite the good stuff though, one thing I didn't like was the ending. It just flopped badly, because of a poor story development. When Mark died, did I feel anything for him? Not really. I was just staring there, shrugging my shoulders. Even worse was when the random thug came. What the hell?! All we get previously is one scene showing that he handles DRUGS, and he SOMEHOW turns out to be this violent freak?! And what made this completely dull and anti-clamatic ending even worse was when Igby seemed to turn into this ex-professional assassin and EASILY kills him! It's all over in a flash! So this seemingly normal guy, Igby, who lives what appears to live a normal life making doll houses, is somehow a master at using weapons?

What about in the audio department? Surely that's good? Not really. There were some good tunes, yes, but a lot of the voices were awful merely because of the contrasting volumes. If time was spent sorting this out, I would have found this more enjoyable. I am really sorry that I am writing this review, but I couldn't get to grips with this at all! Everything appeared to happen so randomly, and there was no signs of a solid, well thought-out plot or some consistently good direction. There were some nice touches, yes, but that's all. A few nice touches. I will presume that this was just a blip, because Liberation Day looks like it will be wonderfully directed and as you know, I have credited the story of Wisdom Tooth Episode 1 a lot. These two show a hell of a lot of promise, and I can't wait for both of their future movies to come out. But in the meantime, The World Around Igby sadly joins quite a long list of disappointing dramas.

Score: 58/100