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Verdict: ✫✫✫

Odd Thomas, a character created by Dean Koontz that spans several novels and a movie directed by Stephen Sommers (the guy behind GI Joe and The Mummy trilogy)… words I’d use to describe this flick: Fast. Humorous. A little sexy here and there. Dialogue straight out of a comic. Surprisingly serious in parts, for all the quirkiness of the flick. An ending I didn’t expect at all.

Odd (yes, that’s his real name because of a screw up on his birth cert, played by Anton Yelchin) and his girlfriend Stormy (a heart-breakingly adorable Addison Timlin) have an interesting relationship. Odd is a psychic investigator who can see the dead. And when I say “investigator” I mean “other worldly special forces agent with a kung fu grip”.

These two are a couple of badasses who grew up together, understand and enjoy each other thoroughly. That said, Armageddon is coming to Pico Mundo, Arizona and the signs are catapulting around every turn in front of Odd like giant red banners. A murder needs investigating, a suspect needs following and a shit load of demons need to be used to help him triangulate the cause of this impending destruction. All hell seems to break loose right on time but who or what is behind it?

All in all, I enjoyed this flick. It was campy and fun about as much as eating great Chinese food with a girl who makes you laugh from deep down in the gut. The chemistry between the characters was on the shallow end, but it’s still cool in the pool and this goofy, gumshoe mystery-thriller with a sci fi twist was a blast to watch. Definitely worth a buck at the box! Heck, I might even check out the first of those novels.


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