This was a Netflix recommendation for me, based on how I rated various movies I had seen, I watched it on streaming movies.
There was a TV series last season called "Revenge". The protagonist is a young woman out to avenge her dad's false imprisonment and eventual murder. This movie, "Boy Wonder", has a similar allure. The boy is in high school, but spends a good bit of after-school time at the police station, looking online at photos, ostensibly to identify the man who killed his mom in their car one day when he was about 8.
The actor who plays the boy, Caleb Steinmeyer as Sean Donovan, is interesting in his own right. Not much on IMDb about him, he has a brooding look about him, and in many ways his face reminds me of Conan O'Brien. He is just about perfect for this role.
I planned to watch maybe half of it before bedtime but it is so engrossing that I watched it straight through, very interestingly made movie.
MAJOR SPOILERS follow: Some of Sean's first targets are petty crooks, a drug dealer here, a pimp there. With his fighting training he handles himself pretty well but ends up shooting them. A new cop in the office begins to suspect Sean, who also studies Chemistry on his own, and speaks several languages. In the end Sean gets back at his mother's killer with a chemical that causes the membranes to swell and the person dies, unable to breathe. He does this by sending a letter to the jail cell, with the request "If it is yes, send it back with the black stamp, if no the red stamp." But the stamps have the chemical, he dies shortly after he licks the stamp and gives the envelope to the guard. Sean gets the one with the red stamp, meaning "No, your dad was not part of your mother's murder plot." But Sean had already killed his father, certain that he had been responsible. Sean was now firmly on the "dark side" as the movie ends.
There was a TV series last season called "Revenge". The protagonist is a young woman out to avenge her dad's false imprisonment and eventual murder. This movie, "Boy Wonder", has a similar allure. The boy is in high school, but spends a good bit of after-school time at the police station, looking online at photos, ostensibly to identify the man who killed his mom in their car one day when he was about 8.
The actor who plays the boy, Caleb Steinmeyer as Sean Donovan, is interesting in his own right. Not much on IMDb about him, he has a brooding look about him, and in many ways his face reminds me of Conan O'Brien. He is just about perfect for this role.
I planned to watch maybe half of it before bedtime but it is so engrossing that I watched it straight through, very interestingly made movie.
MAJOR SPOILERS follow: Some of Sean's first targets are petty crooks, a drug dealer here, a pimp there. With his fighting training he handles himself pretty well but ends up shooting them. A new cop in the office begins to suspect Sean, who also studies Chemistry on his own, and speaks several languages. In the end Sean gets back at his mother's killer with a chemical that causes the membranes to swell and the person dies, unable to breathe. He does this by sending a letter to the jail cell, with the request "If it is yes, send it back with the black stamp, if no the red stamp." But the stamps have the chemical, he dies shortly after he licks the stamp and gives the envelope to the guard. Sean gets the one with the red stamp, meaning "No, your dad was not part of your mother's murder plot." But Sean had already killed his father, certain that he had been responsible. Sean was now firmly on the "dark side" as the movie ends.