Becoming – Movie Review
ABC Film Challenge – Sci-Fi – B
Director: Omar Naim (The Final Cut)
Writer: Omar Naim (Screenplay)
Cast
- Toby Kebbell (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes)
- Penelope Mitchell (Hellboy)
- Jeff Daniel Phillips (Christmas Bloody Christmas)
- Stephen Rider (Daredevil)
- Melissa Bolona (The Hurricane Heist)
- Beth Broderick (Sabrina the Teenage Witch)
- Jason Patric (The Lost Boys)
- Lew Temple (Unstoppable)
Plot: A young woman learns her fiance has become possessed by an entity.
Runtime: 1 Hour 38 Minutes
There may be spoilers in the rest of the review
Story: Becoming starts when Alex (Kebbell) and Lisa (Mitchell) go on a cross-country trip. Along the way, Lisa arranges to meet a distant relative of Alex’s. However, the meeting with Glen (Phillips) and Annie (Bolona) turns out a lot stranger than she had hoped.
After the meeting, Lisa believes something is wrong with Alex and she looks to find out what. It sees her meet Kevin Lee (Patric) who offers a few answers, but he wants to fix things in a much more extreme manner.
Verdict on Becoming
Becoming is a sci-fi horror following a couple who travel across the country. However, along the way, one of them gets possessed by an evil spirit with a controlling personality. Lisa must figure out how to free her boyfriend before it is too late.
This is a nice spin on the possession movie, by having the subject travelling rather than being in one location. Add in the fact that the possession doesn’t go through the twisted transformation, they just change in person. However, it would have been interesting to see more of a deep dive into what caused it. That side of things felt skimmed over. In the end, the movie looks to create a possessive partner controlling their loved one, instead of a more sinister presence. Because of this, it seems to step out of the supernatural elements the movie created.
Where to Watch
Final Thoughts – Becoming is a great spin on the possession movie.
