An average movie

Even before watching this movie, I had already some mixed feelings. Indeed, following the massive success of the 'Twiligh' franchise, of course, they decided to adapt another book written by Stephenie Meyer and even though I believe that the hatred towards those movies was vastly exaggerated, I can’t say I enjoyed them either. On the other hand, I have always had a weak spot for Andrew Niccol's work (even 'In Time' was actually decent in my book) so I was really eager to see his latest directing effort. Well, the whole thing actually had some potential, that’s for sure, but it kept rubbing me in the wrong place. I mean, as usual with Niccol, the concept was really intriguing and the double performance by Saoirse Ronan was really good. Indeed, it was including a lot of inner dialogues between 2 distincts personalities reminding me of someone somewhat schizophrenic. Unfortunately, Meyer is notoriously well known for keeping the psychological level of her characters at the lowest level possible so this whole aspect was rather poorly developed. Furthermore, it pretty much lost me towards the end when, suddenly, everything was solved way too easily and the twist at the end was even worse. To conclude, it wasn't really bad but I still don't think it is really worth a look.

5/10