Some of what makes this movie so bad you can see as the movie is happening: The way the slow story comes to a near halt any time Jennifer Lawrence and Anton Yelchin are on screen together thanks to some of the worst teenage dialogue ever is part of it, and with so little chemistry between them the pair must actively hate each other in real life. Another issue is the ease with which Walter (Gibson) reenters his family's life with the Beaver within a week of being kicked out of his house after two years of depression. There's also director/star Jodie Foster's inability to light a set. And the worst is the flippancy with which mental illness is considered overall, especially as you learn how truly sick Walter has been. This doesn't necessarily make you want to stop watching the movie, it just turns it into a car crash that you can't help but to stare at as it passes by your eyes.

The stuff you don't realize until after the credits roll is what really makes it bad. You begin to realize that having any sympathy for Walter is impossible because his depression is never given a cause, only symptoms. Likewise, you begin to remember all the story lines that never actually were resolved. What will Walter's son do now that he can't go to college for a while? What about his other son who seems to be asocial and constantly bullied? It seems implied that Walter's depression was in some ways genetic -- does that mean that his sons need to be careful? How do you forgive someone who used a beaver puppet on national TV to say that you and your children were nothing but a painful burden? All of this gets glossed over by the faux-happy ending, resulting in a movie that doesn't even come close to justifying its hype.

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