Explore
 Lists  Reviews  Images  Update feed
Categories
MoviesTV ShowsMusicBooksGamesDVDs/Blu-RayPeopleArt & DesignPlacesWeb TV & PodcastsToys & CollectiblesComic Book SeriesBeautyAnimals   View more categories »
Listal logo
One Day review
124 Views
1
vote

"One Day" Could Have Been So Much Better.......


A Romantic comedy with grater ambition of being different often calls for disaster. One day avoids falling into that but at the end it leaves you unfulfilled.It Could have been so much better given the interesting premise, instead it preferred to remain very unintuitive in it's core.
It tells the story of Emma & Dexter, how they met on 15th July 1988 and keeps on the same day over the years till 2011. So in short it's a story of 23 15th July spread across the years. I really liked the way it started but slowly the story looses it's grip. The narration is so repetitive and uninspiring that after a while everything seems so boring. But the biggest flaw the film has is the ending. The twist is so uncalled for and the narration still continues there after quite pointlessly.
But the story scores some good points too. Besides being different, the story really spends time to focus onto the demons of Dexter which slowly causes his downfall. The acting is good. Anne Hathaway is really very good as Emma and Jim Sturgess does his part as a lost soul,Rest of the cast fills in quite well. So in a nutshell
One day is a very good effort which was bogged down largely because of shabby direction.
I am going 6 out of 10 for one day, a film which had so much promise but the end result is nothing great.


6/10
Avatar
Added by santanu
11 years ago on 13 September 2012 16:21

Votes for this - View all
Dola