Almost but not quite

Rating: 5/10 (1 January 2012)

This movie ALMOST did it for me. It was kind of slow to set up, with some stereotypes that seemed like representations of other stereotypes from other movies. Natalie Portman nailed the character of the girl who has intimacy issues but tries to deny it, until things suddenly get serious, then it really hits her that she might have lost Adam and the chance at something real. The scene towards the end where they meet outside the hospital...I started to tear up a little and get misty eyed...but then the dialogue suddenly turned very corny ("if you come one step closer, I'm not gonna let you go") which suddenly made the whole scenario unreal so it lost me. With some re-writing, this could have been a really touching story with a lot of truth to it. But instead they settled for some trite re-hash and a patchwork movie that didn't quite seem to know what it was as a story or genre. Very disappointing because despite the cookie-cutter beginning, this movie had me hooked but then lost me.