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Some of us were looking forward to the Odd Thomas movie<\/a>,<\/strong> due in 2013, but it only happened in a marginal way. Legal problems prevented a conventional theater release, as I understand it. It\u2019s now available on disk and on Netflix, where I viewed it.<\/p>\n Apparently a lot of people who\u2019ve seen it didn\u2019t like it. Well I liked it fine. I have quibbles, but I enjoyed immensely.<\/p>\n A very faithful adaptation of Dean Koontz\u2019s first novel in the Odd Thomas series, this film stars Anton Yelchin, who\u2019s appropriately charming in the role. Addison Timlin plays his beloved Stormy Llewellyn, and Willem Dafoe is Sheriff Wyatt Porter. Odd is a simple fry cook in a small town, but he has the supernatural power to see dead people who, though they can\u2019t speak to him, appeal for his help in identifying their murderers or helping them \u201ccross over\u201d into the next world. He also sees demons he calls \u201cbodachs\u201d whose appearance inevitably portends some major act of mass violence. An unprecedented number of bodachs have been prowling the town recently, and Odd is compelled to do all he can to discover who\u2019s planning mass murder, and stop them.<\/p>\n The cast is almost uniformly excellent, especially Yelchin, who seems to have the spirit of the character down, which is the really important matter for any lover of the books.<\/p>\n I have only a couple quibbles. One is that Odd is hyped a bit, presented as having Benihana skills with spatulas, and being a sort of martial arts master. That’s not a big deal. Worse is the casting of Patton Oswalt as Odd\u2019s friend Boone, perhaps the worst miscasting since Whoopie Goldberg played Bernie Rodenbahr in Burglar<\/i>. Fortunately his scene is very short.<\/p>\n All in all, perhaps the most faithful adaptation of a novel I\u2019ve ever seen, and well worth viewing or even buying.<\/p>\n And yes, if you must know, I cried. Some of us were looking forward to the Odd Thomas movie, due in 2013, but it only happened in a marginal way. Legal problems prevented a conventional theater release, as I understand it. It\u2019s now available on disk and on Netflix, where I viewed it. Apparently a lot of people who\u2019ve seen it didn\u2019t like … Continue reading ‘Odd Thomas’ (the Film)<\/span>
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