Film Review – Come to Daddy

Elijah Wood has been working very hard in recent years to become an interesting actor. He’s selected projects for himself that’ve managed to showcase different sides to his personality and capability, and his interest in the dark stuff (extending to producing duties on “Color Out of Space” and “Daniel Isn’t Real”) has largely paid off. “Come to Daddy” continues Wood’s fondness for unexpected cinema, starring in a dark comedy that opens as a family reunion tale and climaxes at a motel swinger meet-up, and somewhere in the middle there’s a lock-picking scene with a fecal matter-covered pen. Director Ant Timpson works extra hard to make a simple idea expand into dozens of odd scenes, and while the picture runs out of steam long before it ends, there’s a special weirdness to “Come to Daddy” that keeps it gripping and intermittently amusing. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com