Several highlights of the film: 1. About the effect of "8 minutes" on children. 2. Using quick editing, the boy's continuously strengthened tone fully brought out people's fears. 3. The way to deal with the end.
What's bad: 1. The tear gas feels so obvious that a 9/11 side story feels more sad than anything else (I think, poor Brazilian slums and war-torn families in the Middle East are much more tragic than this bourgeois loss Bar). 2. The characterization is not enough. Except for the little boy, other characters are superficial (especially Sandra Bullock's mother image). 3. The boy's perspective is not changed enough. Everyone knows that Dedley likes to use little boys to tell stories (this is the third time he has done so), so the novelty is not enough.
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