50/50 Rating

Rating: 6/10 (29 January 2012)

This film is a decent film, but I feel it is 50/50 whether you will like it or not. The film really doesn't get good until the last 15 minutes. The beginning of the film is a bore and the Seth Rogan F-bomb fest is too over the top. The scenes where the anesthesia personal take him from his mother and they put him on the OR table while not in the proper OR gear is ridiculous. As a cancer surviver I related to the Adam character. I had a girlfriend who told me that my cancer "was intruding on her social life" -- so I asked her to leave. So I know how it feels to have someone bail out on you. My mother (who was aloof most of my life) became overbearing during the whole process as did the character in the film. I related to the film, but because of the sexual nature of "getting laid before I did" and the f-bomb line after line did not make me feel as much for the character as I should have. The last scene was the final straw also. The total violation of the patient-caregiver role was the last Hollywood part that ruined the ending for me. It is not a bad film if you like more of a Hollywood feel than a real life feel. You also have to get by the f-bomb routine.