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Gifted Review

Gifted was a movie that could easily be overlooked by many as a run of the mill story but what sells this movie goes beyond that. The story is basic but the characters and how they come to the end of the story is what pulls you in. 

Frank played by Captain America Chris Evans is the surrogate father of a gifted young girl who we find out comes from a long line of gifted people. After her mother takes her life shortly after she is born, Frank, her brother, takes the child in, as no one else will. The crux of the movie is that Frank believes his sister wanted this bright young girl to have a normal life and not be stuck in some fancy school to develop her math skills. The problem comes when Franks very distant mother comes into the picture and tries to take her away so that she can have a “better” life and live up to the potential she has inside her. The supporting cast delivers in spades along with a very touching and emotion turn from Chris Evans with whom you all know I share a rich history with due to his prior commitments. 

Marc Webb the director, who also directed the Amazing Spider-Man movies does a great job guiding these characters and really pulling out the love inside them. I think it is funny that Marc directed a super hero movie and Evans also was a super hero so I hope they had a conversation about that on set...I can only imagine “Hey how’s everything being Captain America? Did Marvel mention the work I did on Amazing Spider-Man?” “Uh sure thing, your movies were hogwash and clearly Sony doesn’t know how to make a Spider-Man movie these days so it makes sense they had Marvel help out, also I am a handsome rugged simple guy just playing a cool super hero and you made a critically and financially panned movie where you tried to cram too many things into it”. Maybe they had a different conversation but who knows, I wasn’t there.

The setting of the movie was also really cool being that it was in Florida. It was not New York and there were no web slingers swinging around crying about how no one understands what they are going through. What I also enjoyed was how they treated Mary, the young girl. She was brilliant in every sense of the word and everyone around treated her like an adult so if there was tough news to be shared it was shared or very deep conversations that were had. I really enjoy seeing that in movies because it seems like parents treat their children the same way Sony treats the Spider-Man property: with total disregard of who these characters really are and what they can become.

Overall, I loved this movie. I was engrossed the entire time, unlike when I saw Amazing Spider-Man 1 & 2. If you love movies with brilliant child actors, see this movie. If you love Chris Evans then you have to check this out. If you love cool movies about math and geniuses, catch this flick.