Started Well then descended into Mills & Boon Mush

Rating: 6/10 (9 August 2017)

Well I like the romcom genre and this started off looking good.
Clarkes big big grin and big big eyebrows did actually work in this poor girl takes a job to look after rich, handsome, throughly disabled and suicidal guy Will Traynor (Claflin)
The story had the potential for an lot of depth. Traynor plans to go to Switzerland to be euthanised but promised his parents to wait 6 months to see if his outlook on his life (such as it was) changes. Clarke is brought in as a minder/suicide watch person.
There are issues that the film could have covered, much much better, rich versus poor, euthanasia, disability etc
I couldn't help but wonder if the roles were reversed, i.e. the poor person was the wheel chair bound quadroplegic. ? But no that would be far too miserable.
Instead the makers chose to go for cheesy and safe mushy love story, where even the poor, aren't that poor, etc. A rather Disney wash on what could have been a serious but funny, tragic thought provoking movie.
The acting was OK but I could not say anyone stuck out as great. If I had to pick anyone, it was Stephen Peacock as the male nurse. He did give an air of gritty reality to what otherwise ends as Mills & Boon romantic slush.
Watch once, probably twice if you feel like a good old Mills & Boon boo hoo, don't forget your tissues.