5 Flights Up Reviews

To be honest, I wasn’t expecting much from this flick but since I have a weak spot for Morgan Freeman and Diane Keaton, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, I have to admit that I actually mostly enjoyed it after all. I mean, sure, the story was just really paper thin as you spent 90 mins with this old couple selling their apartment and looking for a new one when you realize very soon that they probably don’t need to go through all this at all. However, I still enjoyed the damned thing mostly because Freeman and Keaton made such a cute couple and they had such a nice chemistry together. Sure, Diane Keaton basically gave the same performance she had been giving in every single movie during the last 20 years but it worked fine here. The flashback scenes were also decent enough, especially the one when they met but, to be honest, I think they tried to add too many heavy themes such as interracial marriage and infertility which didn’t really belong to such a featherlight romantic-comedy. It was also rather weird that, even though the story was also told from Alex’s point of view, for some reason, you get to see a flashback with Ruth struggling with her family because she had decided to marry a black man but what happened to Alex’s family then? Didn’t they have an opinion on the matter? Was he an orphan maybe? Anyway, to conclude, I guess my rating might be too generous here but I enjoyed spending some time with this couple and there was something beautiful about them. Eventually, I guess we all hope or wish that, after 40 years together, we will have such a harmonious and fulfilling relationship with our partner which is, in most cases, rather unlikely to happen, I’m afraid.