I want my two hours back...

Rating: 4/10 (25 January 2015)

First we have a boring, unlikable main character, and his uncompelling problems. In the first 52 minutes of the movie which I managed to pay full attention to, I was left unsatisfied with this feeling like nothing was really at stake, there was no conflict that I was interested in seeing the outcome of. The life-shattering trauma in his life is finding his wife sexing in the shower with another man, an uninteresting premise IMHO.
Jennifer Lawrence's manic pixie dream girl, borderline PD act, and how she manipulates the main character is so contrived and unpleasant to watch. The way she and the main character push and pull at each other is so irrational and just... drama for the sake of drama. I assume they'll get together in the end, and that would just be too painful to watch.
So basically the movie seems to come down to boring upper-middle-class people bickering and acting crazy and irritating while trying to "find themselves" while wrapped up in the cozy blandness of tree-lined suburbia. There's no real danger in the movie, just a soap-opera-ish, romanticized version of mental illness that serves as a zany backdrop for an adolescent, angsty romance.