★★★☆☆
Director: Dan Mazer
Starring: Rose Byrne, Rafe Spall, Anna Faris, Simon Baker
❝ IF YOU REALLY WANT TO MAKE IT WORK, YOU COULD TRY FOCUSING ON MAKING IT TO A YEAR. ❞
Synopsis: Josh (Rafe Spall) and Nat (Rose Byrne) have just gotten married after seven months of dating. Both immediately begin to struggle with their marriage and are advised that if they can stay together for at least a year, then they will be able to overcome their problems.
Oh dear. This was painful to watch at times. Unfortunately, the characters had a world of potential with regards to their complexities and emotional depth, but none of these were realised. They ended up coming off dull and shallow. This was not because of the performances, which were good enough but because of the script itself. Mazer gave the characters nothing worth connecting to, thus making it hard to even care what would happen to this couple in the end. Apart from Josh's best friend, the creepy and perverted Danny (Stephen Merchant), the film attempted to showcase different types of marriages that exist but ultimately failed in it's execution due to the lack of detail and possibly the lack of backstory that these characters had. The frustrating thing about this film was how great it could have been, had there been more focus on going deeper into each character's true emotional state. Alas, it tried so hard to be funny and expected emotional investment from the audience because we knew they were struggling, and it just didn't work. Anna Faris was the highlight of this for me and the only person who did make me laugh out loud for the right reasons. This was a nice attempt but overall not a film worth recommending and a film that really didn't need to be made when there are similar films that do it better.
0 comments:
Post a Comment