MTV Song Transitions Sink this One

Rating: 5/10 (30 September 2016)

A fairly good story by Jojo Moyes gets deep-sixed by awful, awful, music cuts and transitions infesting scene shift after scene in what could've been a good albeit maudlin script of "Me Before You". Fault lies mostly with editors and director Thea Sharrock for completely over-indulging singing music cuts. Sorry Sharrock, in editing with film when it comes to music and audio, less is more. Kumbaya might be OK for campfires, but not for stories of paraplegics or cinema. MTV is its own category. There's a time and a place for it, but not in supposedly serious subject matter. Clarke and Claflin are not at fault and do a good job in this movie. Too bad directors and editors cannot fathom or recognize their own tacky and poor soundtrack editing. 5/10 cannot recommend.