Billy Goate

An engrossing human drama turns unexpectedly bizarre as a grieving and conflicted father finds himself on an island rumored to be "the soul of the world."

Can you get bored watching a beautifully rendered state of the art action movie? You can when the story is implausible, rushed, and clumsily handled. Time and again the script screwed around with my willingness to suspend disbelief. It would have been helped by a tighter focus on fewer characters, a greater sense of wonder and awe, and a feeling of vulnerability -- hard to do when you're constantly toying with the biggest this and the most powerful that. Still I enjoyed seeing how seamlessly the computer animated effects were designed and executed.