Started Out Really Good, but then became Average

Rating: 7/10 (10 August 2015)

Mia Hall (Moretz) has a decision to make: attend Julliard for music (cello) or stay with boyfriend Adam (Blackley) an almost successful rocker for life. A car accident puts her into a coma and in an out-of-body experience, she has the capacity to decide what course to take and is able to run the halls of the hospital to find out what happened to the rest of her family who were also in that accident.
Here's the thing: Mia's father Denny (Joshua Leonard) gave up his rock band music and sacrificed his career for the sake of his family most notably Mia because Mia had the talent on the cello and could go far. Will Mia give up Julliard and stay with Adam? Will Adam give up his rock band and support Mia? This is the story in a nutshell. What do you want Mia to do assuming she wakes up from the coma?
We see Mia in the hospital with flashbacks to her time with family and with Adam so we don't lose anything. We see it all. We really like her family who are super supportive and we see that Mia can talk to her mother Kat (Mirelle Enos) about boys. (kidding, right?)
We see the stirrings of first love between Mia and Adam and the dialogues, eye-to-eye contact and facial expressions went a long way to our liking this union. Then later, decisions have to be made and the relationship becomes strained and it is here we are not too keen about Adam. Hey, we are all about Team Mia. (thought so)
The movie while good is too long and didn't have to be. A downside that didn't make any sense to me was when Adam tried to get to Mia's bedside and was turned away often. The family (or the author of the book this is based on) didn't see the value of a loved one at the bedside of a coma victim until way into the end of the movie. Maybe the family knew about the break-up and didn't want Adam there. Maybe. Still I would think that everything should be done to help a patient out of a coma.
Miss Moretz is truly an exceptional actress and we'll see much more of her in the future. The entire cast was very good and we were not bored any time they were on screen. It was the length of the too long script that put this into the "average" category as the pacing was too drawn out.
Notables: Liana Liberato as Kim, Mia's best friend; and Stacy Keech, Mia's "gramps", who came up with a very good bedside pleading. It's okay to have a box of Kleenex nearby at this time.
This started out really good and became average.
The last scenes involve Adam and Mia whereby Adam had finally written a song about Mia and sings it to her at her bedside. Mia hears the song, and we and she see the bright light and then the camera comes back to focus on Mia's face and then (7/10)
Violence: No. Sex: Yes, but nothing is seen. Nudity: No. Language: No.