TRULY About Time I Watched This, & You Should Too!

Rating: 10/10 (23 May 2019)

I've been avoiding this movie for a while. For female I hate chick flicks. I'm more of a Die Hard kind of girl. And I Netflix the icon definitely look like a chick flick. But I went ahead and pulled up the description and it sounded pretty good actually about time travel and Bill Nighy was in the cast so I figured it must be a comedy and I truly needed something to make me laugh right now. My health is failing and I have a lot of stress at home with my son graduating high school and turning 18 so I thought what the heck I'll give it a chance. And boy did I bet on the right horse!
The first thing was I couldn't quiet place this ginger kid but there was something so special and magnetic about him. So I had to come to IMDb to look it up, and it was definitely an epic facepalm! How could I not know that I was sitting here watching a Gleason?!?! And not just any Gleason, but the one who made my toes curl when he played Bill Weasley in the Harry Potter franchise! And I kind of thought that the female lead looked a little familiar but she was so mousy that I didn't figure she was anybody I'd seen that I would try to store in my memory banks, But as time went by they made her look better and better and I realized it was Rachel McAdams! For goodness sakes the actress from another one of my absolute favorite movies! So this cast is full of star-studded actors and actresses now we've got that down we can move on LOL!
I do not like spoilers myself when I read these so I will guarantee you that I'm not going to give you more than a trailer or what a reviewer would give you so if you're looking for that I'm really sorry I'm sure somebody else in here we'll give that to you but I want you to enjoy it and appreciate it for yourself but what I will give you is some background and enough to make you really want to watch this movie! This is about a young man who's been raised to be an absolute gentleman and that is what he is he lives on his family's beachfront property with Mom, Dad, sister, an uncle who's a little bit off his rocker that is an absolute sweetheart. One day his dad takes him aside and tells him that the men in his family can travel through time. Not forward but backwards. They can go back and change minor things not like the history of War but like what shirt they wore to work yesterday. And doing little things like that they can affect certain outcomes in their lives. He's never had a love, and one summer his sister brings up a friend, and he really really likes her. And the last day before she leaves she finally gets up the nerve to tell her. And she tells him it's too bad you waited till the last minute basically because I liked you too. So he goes back in time and tells her earlier feeling confident because of what she told him. And she tells him well why don't we see where this summer goes and you asked me on my last day. So she's giving him all kinds of mixed messages and treating him pretty awful. When she leaves so does he. He begins his career in a law firm, and immediately and awkward young man befriends him. And we find that through the years our hero helps to make this awkward young man less awkward and the awkward young man's friendship helps our hero come out of his shell. But one night they go to a restaurant where you eat in the dark. They are seated with two female friends. They actually hit it off and agreed to meet outside of the restaurant and the minute that our hero sees the woman he's been chatting with and feeding strawberry dessert to, all thoughts of his previous summer Crush are wiped from his head. She's self-conscious and can't believe that he's interested in her, but he asks for her number and she gives it to him. He goes away so happy but when he gets home he finds out that his roommate who is an old friend of his father's had his show - he's a playwright - completely Tanked because the lead male actor forgot his lines! So our hero being the complete gentleman that he is uses his time shifting abilities to go back in time 2 fix things and only finds that by making sure that that gentleman remembers his lines, the males that he's playing opposing to then forgets his lines! So he has to shift through time again and ends up holding scrip cards for that guy so he can read the script and the show ends up being a huge success! But when he goes to call Mary the girl he met, her phone number is completely gone from his phone! This is where I'm going to end it because I don't want to give anything away. I think it's important for you to watch and see what happens, obviously he's going to use this time shifting abilities to find her because he had nothing other than her phone number to go on in the fact that she loves Kate Moss. His sister and His Friends help. That's what happens when you're a good person, people want to see you happy because they love you. And in the end that's what this movie was about with love and being surrounded by good people. I seldom go away feeling really good after watching a movie. Sure I've gone away laughing from watching a movie like Ghostbusters, and I've gone away quoting a movie like Friday, and I've gone away starry-eyed from watching a movie like The Notebook, but this movie made me feel really good about life in the people that I have in my life.
So I'm to my typical positive and negative section. It is on rare occasion that I ever give out a 10 star rating, and that is because it is on rare occasion that a movie actually deserves a 10 star rating! This movie suckered me in with beautiful cinematography; a moving family dynamic- you could feel the love especially when he started disparaging his mother because you could tell it was all jokingly in a loving manner; and the use of such brilliant colors! It Really just made everything pop and really brought a feeling of happiness and positivity to the good times in the film! The dynamic between our hero and our heroin was just amazing. You can tell that these two are amazing actors because you could almost testify that they were in love. The script was amazing, the acting was amazing, every single person in this did their best and you could feel it!
Now on to the negatives. And obviously there can't be too many for me to have given it a 10. And obviously the negatives can't be that negative in order to keep that 10. There is an issue with his sister that has to be overcome, and it's a pretty big, really dangerous issue. I don't think the way it was handled was handled with appropriate severity and sensitivity to the issue. There is one other thing but unlike how I could dance around the above thing I can't dance around this so I'm going to have to let it go LOL!
All in all this was an absolutely amazing movie it should definitely be viewed by anyone who's looking to feel good about their day, themselves, the situation they find themselves in, or just anything in general! It's just a feel-good movie! Don't waste your time himming and hawing, it's "About Time" to watch this movie!