Highly overrated, but not a bad movie.

Rating: 6/10 (8 August 2013)

This movie I think gets more credit than it deserves. The acting isn't bad, and the moral of the story is pretty good as well, though they really shove it in your face.
My problem, honestly, is the soundtrack. Yes, the soundtrack. The one everyone loves. Because it's terrible? No. In fact, it's a very dramatic and intense soundtrack. Far too dramatic, for some of the scenes that it's put over.
It honestly just sucks me so far out of the moment that I can't take any scene seriously, because they use the exact same segment of the exact same song over, and over, and over again. It's almost as if the content of the scene and the emotion of the characters means nothing without music shouting "Hey! Feel something! A dramatic thing is happening!"
Music is important in a movie, and can enhance a scene very much. However, this movie abuses its soundtrack. There are too many montages of bad things happening while the music plays. We get it, the characters are on a downward spiral. Show us the spiral through something other than another montage.
Again, this is something many people can get past without a problem. As for myself, though I find this to be a huge problem, I don't think it's a bad movie. It's nothing grand and amazing, but it's nothing terrible and embarrassing either. If it interests you, by all means check it out. Just be prepared for some corny editing.