Review of If I Stay

This is director R.J. Cutler's first non-documentary style movie so it should be interesting to see how he fares. The plot isn't that original seeing as I have seen a movie called The Invisible which also deals with a dying teenager trying to figure things out. I have to admit the only real reason I'm interested in this is for Chloe Moretz. It seems like this movie didn't know what it wanted to be. I think it should have been a straight through kind of story instead of going back and forth. It feels all jumbled up taking away from itself when it switches from past to present. It would work if the flashback scenes made any sense to what is happening in the hospital. Why is she even narrating like nothing is happening? It just doesn't make any sense the way this is filmed and edited. If the book is this way too I can say I'm not interested in reading it. The acting is pretty good though of course. Mireille Enos seems like she belongs in a Rob Zombie movie. Every time I see her that's what her presence feels like to me. Anyways this was a cute movie that had some great heart felt moments. The ending however made me mad. Why did it end that way? That was really unfair and unrewarding. I was highly disappointed with this movie as a whole. It's a good love story, but otherwise it could have been much better than it was.