To me this film was average.

Rating: 7/10 (27 December 2016)

By seeing the trailer and the promising reviews of the film I expected to see a visual spectacle. I knew I could not expect a film that would make me think or would change my views on life. If it did it would be a pleasant surprise, otherwise it would be purely very entertaining. To my disappointment it wasn't both of them. The story of the film is really not interesting to keep watching. I was quite bored by its obvious and non-creative plot line. My last hope was a surprising plot-twist but unfortunately this didn't happen either. The plot was straightforward and meaningless. This made me think about where the high rates would come from. Was it the visuals? I think this was the best part of the film, though it wasn't that impressive that it made up for the boring plot. The acting wasn't that good either. Why were Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone chosen for this film? I suppose only for the big names. I would rather have seen actual musical stars with more entertainment experience. I don't think Gosling and Stone have a very convincing chemistry, which made the film not very romantic even though I watched it on Christmas eve with my boyfriend. But I don't know how much I can blame their performance on themselves. The dialogues just weren't very strongly written. There was no excitement or actual drama. Everything remained flat and made you not care about the characters at all. On top of that the characters were already too cool and flawless from the beginning of the film so there wasn't too much character development. In the end I still give the film a 7 because it was still a bit entertaining to watch, the visuals and locations were nice and the editing was quite good. For me this was an average film watching experience.