I must go against the grain of most reviewers here and despite the waste of the good actress Kay Walsh this film is in my opinion utterly boring. Some may consider the adventures of a boy and a magnet interesting but it left me cold. Incidents come and go but James Fox is annoying as an actor and his accent is totally out of character in Liverpool, and the rest of the actors suffer from the same Kensington/Chelsea complaint, or should I say Belgravia and Mayfair. This jars and the film is not strong enough to survive it. Set in London it would have been boringly believable but further North it just imposes London snobbery. Stephen Murray is a psychiatrist who uses jargon that is nonsense most of the time and the mention of Jung had me in fits of unwanted laughter. This is a long way from the great ' Passport to Pimlico ' but to be fair whoever reads this must make up their own minds. To put it in a nutshell this male brat is avoiding 'growing up ' and wearing long trousers by behaving ( in 1950's terms ) badly. Anyway that is what father psychiatrist says and while saying that looks as if he needs one of his own.
Review of The Magnet
