An average movie

To be honest, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but, since I have a weak spot for Chloë Grace Moretz and since it was available on Netflix, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, unfortunately, even though Moretz was really charismatic as usual, I’m afraid the damned thing turned out to be another really half-baked projects like maybe half of the movies she has done so far in her career. In this case, the whole thing actually did have some potential though. Indeed, there was something interesting about this teenager still grieving the loss of his mother who suddenly had to deal with the death of one of his friends. Of course, you could blame Ansel Elgort as he is not exactly the most inspiring actor of his generation but I don’t think he was bad here though. I was not so sure either about the romantic relationship between his character and the character played by Moretz but, again, it wasn’t the real issue with this movie. First of all, what the hell was this title? It seriously had nothing to do with the story and I thought it was rather misguiding. Eventually, the biggest problem with this movie was above all that the directing was completely tone-deaf. Basically, it was dealing with a really disturbed teenager, probably highly depressed, possibly with some autistic tendencies which was some pretty dark stuff but the director Sacha Gervasi kept constantly toning down the dark edges of this tale resulting with something with no spine whatsoever. To play the parents, they had some of the best actors around, David Strathairn and Catherine Keener, but there is not much they could with this material and they were not helped by the fact that their characters were barely developed whatsoever. Anyway, to conclude, even if I don’t think it was a complete disaster, the damned thing was still pretty weak and I don’t think it is really worth a look.