Not what the advertisements made it out to be, but so much more

Rating: 10/10 (29 March 2012)

I went into 50/50 thinking it would be just a movie poking fun at cancer with him trying to use his cancer prognosis to pick up chicks but that's more or less just his friend trying to force him into that and not Joseph Gordon Levitt's character really into it at all. The story is about a young man in his 20's who gets unexpected news from his doctor that he has cancer. All the while he has a girlfriend who if it wasn't for the cancer news probably wouldn't have stayed with him so she's not really there for him and is a very selfish individual. He has to rely on his best friend played by Seth Rogen, his fellow patients getting their chemotherapy treatments and a young psychiatrist in training who he goes to deal with the issues of his situation.
With this movie and other stuff like (500) Days of Summer and being one of the hottest in demand actors right now JGL is definitely turning out to be one of the best actors of his generation.