Overrated and dull

Rating: 4/10 (31 May 2019)

This movie could have had some serious potential but unfortunately it was just bland. The plot itself is not bad and it's actually interesting but the execution of it was pretty horrendous. A kid who moves from Chicago to a small town, that could actually be an interesting premise to build on but it just did not work.
A plot should be clear and focused, in this case there was just way too much jumping around different plot points to the point where it actually became annoying. There weren't any stand out moments from the film except the warehouse dance scene which was pretty good. The other points such daring each other with tractors, jumping from one vehicle to another and standing in front of the train were honestly just dumb. While teenagers often do stupid things, there's never that much stupidity in the span of a few days.
The whole plot with the reverend and his daughter is just uninteresting and it ought to have been handled differently. The film does a good job of showing character growth but it was so dull that it just didn't matter because we weren't invested in the character.
The final dance scene was okay, although I wasn't too keen on the actual dancing itself. It did lack talent but that's not a major issue. For a film about dancing, there was actually very little dancing.
There were certainly some great parts but I was waiting for the film to pick up and when it did, it was towards the end at which point I had simply lost interest.
The good parts of the film weren't strong enough to overcome the bad and so I think this will remain a pretty dull movie.