Much to its credit the second film in Culkin's return to screen shows the former child star truly at home as a righteously dark adolescent, a character which would suit him well in a better context.
Rightious darkness runs in the family, and they are also capable of weirdness. Kieren, Macauley's brother, has done well as an ironic young man in Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys and above all, Igby Goes Down. I liked Macauley much better in the trashy but original Party Monster than in this toned down performance from a wheelchair in Saved.