cliché, alas not the good kind

Rating: 4/10 (14 May 2012)

The acting is  cliché. It's horrible how the cutting is so obvious that the resulting scenes are not quite smooth. I could actually imagine the separate takes > and that coming from some one who never took screenplay writing classes. I believe it says something about the movie when audience loose their aesthetic distance and start addressing the technical aspects.
Some characters come across as chopped off (Jamie's mother, the father). They had potential in my opinion. They could have been very charming if given enough space. Even Jamie (Mila) is quite obscured as a character, we know about her from others' report but we rarely see her development or actual change conveyed through acting instead of telling.
The city scenery is pleasing.
_____ my first movie review, sorry if it lacks.