Ace Wonder: Message from a Dead Man

2014

Action / Adventure / Family / Mystery

14
IMDb Rating 5.2/10 10 313 313

graphic novel detective comic book based on graphic novel fatherhood boy hero

Plot summary

Ace Wonder is a 10-year-old detective, struggling to find a storyline for his latest novel. When his path tangles with Derek Morton, a simple family mystery becomes a very real case of corporate espionage, scientific discovery, and one coldblooded killer.

Director

John Robert Moore Photo
John Robert Moore

Top cast

David Moore Photo
David Moore as David Moore
Reagan Moore Photo
Reagan Moore as Reagan Moore
Jack Moore Photo
Jack Moore as Jack Moore
Audrey Moreland Photo
Audrey Moreland as Audrey Morton
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English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 35 min
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English 2.0
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1 hr 35 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by vchimpanzee

Enjoyable mystery

Solving the mystery proves to be quite an adventure and results in some improved relationships. There is also some minor violence and some people do jail time.Gator Moore is quite a character, but he doesn't quite reach his full potential. In some scenes he is everything we saw when he was introduced, and in others he's just an ordinary 10-year-old solving a mystery.Also not utilized fully is the comic strip art. First we see Gator's work, and later actual characters in the movie are transformed into their comic book counterparts. Gator is adding to his work on this real-life mystery all the time, but we don't really see that much of it. It's great when we do.Still, this is an entertaining, sometimes scary and often funny story, with some of the standard situations you run into with this formula. Finding the clues requires intelligence and things are just complicated enough.Most of the actors are good enough. Robert Grossman, though, really stands out. He's just plain intimidating and should have his own horror movie or TV show, if not a series. Imagine Christopher Lloyd with the voice of Roscoe Lee Browne.Garrett Schenck may be too old by now, but if someone with a liberal agenda was looking for an actor to play Donald Trump, he certainly has the right look, if The Donald let his hair turn gray and actually looked his age. His style of speaking isn't exactly eloquent, but that's why I say Trump as depicted by liberals. For what may or may not be a villain, Schenck gets it right but isn't too intimidating. There's always a question there about what he is.When I saw this movie it had a V-chip rating of TV-14. That's overdoing it. All I can conclude is that someone must have figured if a 10-year-old is the main character, they don't want to encourage 10-year-olds to watch. I say there's nothing harmful here. Minor violence. That's it. One word was bleeped.This is a fun mystery that should probably be a series.
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Reviewed by fbkathied 6 / 10

Enjoyed the redemptive theme

Found it on Peacock; entertained me & happy ending, which is not a spoiler, but what I like to see at the end of a movie. Some acting was fine, some was not the greatest, but in this case, I didn't care.

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