An average movie

To be honest, the title of this movie was a major spoiler which wasn’t really a great start but since there was a nice cast involved, I thought I might as well check it. Well, I have to admit that it actually turned out to be a decent surprise and it has been ages that Catherine Hardwicke had delivered a solid directorial effort like this one. Of course, you could argue that ‘Twilight’ had been a massive box-office success but it was also ridiculed by the rest of the planet. Above all, its commercial success never had the impact you might have expected on Hardwicke’s career. Anyway, coming back to our main feature, they did get many elements right. Indeed, the four characters were fairly well developed and the cast (Drew Barrymore, Toni Collette, Dominique Cooper, Paddy Considine) all delivered some solid performances. I also did appreciate that the tone was usually fine and thankfully it never became too light. I guess that it was the main issue with this movie, the fact that it was ‘fine’ but, to be honest, it never became really much more than that. Maybe it was too safe but, in the genre of ‘the terminally-ill-cancer-patient’, it definitely didn’t cover some new ground after all. I also believed that the conflict between Millie and Jess was probably not dramatic enough and it was also hardly convincing. I mean, they spent the whole movie creating a great friendship and, yet, they would like us to believe that Jess would suddenly dump Milly while she was in the middle of a huge fight against cancer? Anyway, to conclude, even if it wasn’t a masterpiece after all, it was still a decent watch though and I think it is worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

6/10