Lion is based off of the true story of Saroo played as a child by Sunny Pawar and as an adult by Dev Patel who lives in India and through sleeping on a train finds himself in Calcutta where he is later adopted by an Australian couple Sue and John (Nicole Kidman and David Wenham) but he begins to have nightmares of the night he got lost in India and vows to find his true home.
Lion is a film of two halves for me and overall was not one that did much for me personally the first half of the film is actually pretty good showing Saroo's life in India and Pawar is very very good and for someone so young to just hold your attention in the way that he does is quite astounding.
Which is a lot more than I can say for the 2nd half of the film where once again like in the Light Between Oceans your forced to see world class actors sitting around crying, staring at monitor screens, looking out windows, treating loved ones like shit and drinking wine and this part of the film got so bloody boring and tedious I just kept wanting to look at my watch and wait for the damn thing to end.
Patel does do a good job with the Australian accent but I actually found it to hinder his performance it's one thing to get it right it's another to convincingly act with it as well something Kate Winslet did very well in the Dressmaker and can we PLEASE stop wasting Rooney Mara in movies she's a wonderful actress so so good in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Carol but here she just plays the concerned girlfriend and "Oh my darling man please don't leave me now" UGH GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK and to quote Marvin the Martian "OOOOO this makes me very angry."
And so that was Lion a good first half and an awful second half, 1.5 out of 5.
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