![]() ![]() The movie would have benefited from more attention to the bounty hunters, whose difficulties with Harlem culture would have balanced the Brother's strange ease of assimilation. And all his movies are hampered by an almost shocking ignorance of filmmaking fundamentals - he just doesn't know where to put his camera. Paul Attanasio wrote: "Sayles is no storyteller despite the verve of its language, The Brother From Another Planet eventually sags of its own weight. Club, in a 2003 review of the film's DVD release, said the film's superhero scenes are "often unintentionally silly, but again, Sayles shapes a catchy premise into a subtler piece, using Morton's 'alien' status as a way of asking who deserves to be called an outsider in a country born of outsiders" commenting on the DVD, they noted its "marvelous" audio commentary track by Sayles, "who moves fluidly from behind-the-scenes anecdotes to useful technical tips to unpretentious dissections of his own themes." Variety called The Brother from Another Planet a "vastly amusing but progressively erratic" film structured as a "series of behavioral vignettes, are genuinely delightful and inventive" as it continues, the film "takes a rather unpleasant and, ultimately, confusing turn." Vincent Canby called it a "nice, unsurprising shaggy-dog story that goes on far too long" but singled out "Joe Morton's sweet, wise, unaggressive performance." Roger Ebert gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four, saying "the movie finds countless opportunities for humorous scenes, most of them with a quiet little bite, a way of causing us to look at our society", noting that "by using a central character who cannot talk, is sometimes able to explore the kinds of scenes that haven't been possible since the death of silent film." Sayles spent part of his MacArthur Fellows "genius" grant on the film, which cost $350,000 to produce. ![]() Extras from the film described it as "The Black E.T. Giancarlo Esposito as Man Being Arrested (uncredited)ĭirector John Sayles has described The Brother from Another Planet as being about the immigrant experience of assimilation.John Sayles and David Strathairn as Men In Black.
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