Just plain cringey

Rating: 1/10 (23 August 2018)

I don't even know where to start. The characters resemble the tropes you normally see written by teenagers in sub par fanfiction: Law's character is the classic quirky writer, self-insert male lead, and Portman is his manic pixie wet dream. I will refer to the other two characters as the other two, because they exist solely to round off the awkward love square that the film is centred on, and have no other attributes to speak of.
Love at first sight is a very prevalent theme in this film. You will know the characters are in love when they caress each others faces on their first meeting. This happens often.
The writers are also very liberal with 'deep and intellectual' lines such as "I love everything about you that hurts", which are unorganically shoe-horned into scenes as often as humanly possible, and usually don't make sense. I say liberal because the dialogue consists of these profound words of wisom more than, you know, actual dialogue.
I see a lot of people describe this film as 'real' and 'raw', probably because it contains a lot of crude sexual language. Its not that I'm a prude, but for a scene to be sexy you have to establish some sort of chemistry between characters. Otherwise, crude language just comes off as a poor attempt to be edgy, like a kid discovering swear words for the first time and over-using them to sound cool.
It's not often I go out of my way to write a long review like this, but this film was really, truly abysmal. I'm actually not sure if the director has ever seen two real life humans interact before.