Young actor Elliott Heffernan lights up Director Steve McQueen's wartime drama Blitz. As George, the mixed-race son of single mother Saoirse Ronan, he's a 9-year-old lost in wartime London, trying to find his way home. Blitz feels like earlier wartime sagas, Empire of the Sun and Hope and Glory. Placed on a train evacuating youngsters during the German bombing raids in 1940, the kid rebels, jumps the train, works his way back. Blitz changes from adventure into a Dickens thriller, as thieves kidnap George, forcing him to join their scavenging. Blitz is especially creative showing terror from the sky. The result feels familiar, and sometime derivative.
