As much as I hate to say it, this movie was poorly done; lacking the kind of quality most viewers would expect to see. That has you wondering if it could get any better. It is not a movie I would care to watch over & over and or would brag to others about. I didn't find it entertaining, enjoyable and meaningful. Nor like the website, that describes it as being... uplifting, inspiring and healing.
This movie should be redone better than it was. Because it comes off looking like a home movie shot by an amateur. Or something left over from the retro B-movies.
Locations throughout the movie looked runned down, unkept, vacant and as if dressed up. Most movies have that special lighting & appealing colorization that this one doesn't have. The plot seem a bit too choppy and character development not clearly defined.
What I gathered is... Lifted (2010), seem to depict a perfectly good teen surrounded by unfortunate circumstances & bad people. With the teen's rise to success comes certain unexpected loss at the end.
The only best part of the movie is near the ending, which still left something more to be desired.
The only person that was recognized in the movie is Chris Adkins. Uriah Shelton and Ruben Studdard are the only ones I liked seeing in the movie. Most everyone else didn't seem to fit in, as they weren't what one would expect to see in movies. The viewer is left to figuring things out on there own. The dad didn't resemble anything like the teen, which made one wonder if he was a boyfriend or step-dad. I thought the mother was going to either group therapy or some alcohol anonymous place. We are left wondering if the dope addict mother or the drunken no-good grandfather does any better, since the teen accomplished something. I feel the dad should of lived and the two wasted family members should met their maker.
This movie should be redone better than it was. Because it comes off looking like a home movie shot by an amateur. Or something left over from the retro B-movies.
Locations throughout the movie looked runned down, unkept, vacant and as if dressed up. Most movies have that special lighting & appealing colorization that this one doesn't have. The plot seem a bit too choppy and character development not clearly defined.
What I gathered is... Lifted (2010), seem to depict a perfectly good teen surrounded by unfortunate circumstances & bad people. With the teen's rise to success comes certain unexpected loss at the end.
The only best part of the movie is near the ending, which still left something more to be desired.
The only person that was recognized in the movie is Chris Adkins. Uriah Shelton and Ruben Studdard are the only ones I liked seeing in the movie. Most everyone else didn't seem to fit in, as they weren't what one would expect to see in movies. The viewer is left to figuring things out on there own. The dad didn't resemble anything like the teen, which made one wonder if he was a boyfriend or step-dad. I thought the mother was going to either group therapy or some alcohol anonymous place. We are left wondering if the dope addict mother or the drunken no-good grandfather does any better, since the teen accomplished something. I feel the dad should of lived and the two wasted family members should met their maker.