OK, I'm not a typical viewer -- but as a scientist and engineer, I wanted to see the story of a boy figuring out how to make a working electrical system from scrap. But every time we see William start to think about anything involving engineering, we immediately jump to some other place in the story. One has the impression that whoever wrote the script hated science class and doesn't ever want to think about how anything works. It's fine to tell the story of the drought and its impact on the town, but the two stories should run in parallel, with us learning with William as he figures out how to make a working wind-driven pump. In (film making) technical terms, the first act lasts almost the whole movie -- we spend the whole time setting up the problem and the solution then appears by magic. Disappointing.
Review of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
