An average movie

I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but since I have a weak spot for Emily Blunt, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, to be honest, I didn’t really care about the damned thing after all. Seriously, it is such a pity that Emily Blunt, a really lovely and talented actress, has spent a huge chunk of her career playing in such underwhelming quirky indie comedies. I have to admit that the concept actually had some potential and I did like the idea of a guy dropping off everything to start a new life with a new identity. Unfortunately, pretty much everything else in this movie barely worked at all though. For example, the way Arthur/Wallace met Mike/Charlotte was completely far-fetched and, even though Colin Firth and Emily Blunt both delivered some solid performances, I didn’t believe for once second that these 2 characters would end up together. To make things worse, when they started to break-in in some random houses, the whole thing became supposedly even quirkier but certainly even more annoying. It’s too bad because the cast was not bad at all and it was, for example, quite impressive to see how much a young Lucas Hedges managed to do with a completely half-baked sub-plot and character. Anyway, to conclude, even if I have seen worse, the whole thing was still pretty weak and I don’t think it is really worth a look, except maybe if you are a die-hard fan of Emily Blunt.