An OK teen RomCom/Sad Drama for a Sunday afternoon, tissues optional.

Rating: 7/10 (2 June 2019)

When I read the reviews of this film I had the filter set to Helpfulness and I couldn't work out if this was the best film ever or the biggest steaming pile of excrement you will ever see. The first eight reviews were 9-8-10-9-8-10-9-10 and I was getting very excited but then suddenly, there were eight 1's in the next 12 reviews....hey? I saw reviews like this with The "Before..." trilogy (Sunrise, Sunset, Midnight), I loved those films but others just didn't get it and the 10's and 1's reflected that but I don't think this film falls into that category. At the time of writing this film is 7.7 which is sort of about right. We all have different scales and for me, anything over 7.8 falls into the pretty good category and over 8 into the very good...and so on. When leaving a review there really isn't anything that should get a 10 or a 1 as where can you go when something comes along that is better or worse? As it happens, this is mentioned in the film and it's not a spoiler to say that she describes her pain as a 9 because, well, it could be worse.
So having got all of that out of the way, this film is a 7.7 which for me falls into the "OK" category. Shailene Woodley is the stand out actress with the rest just, meh, although Willem Dafoe's almost cameo appearance does add a bit of bite to it. My wife loves a good RomCom and is always reaching for the tissues and although she did again with this film, not as much as she usually does. I've shed a tear watching Cars, fought them back in the final scene of Pay It Forward and bawled my eyes out at.....well, you get the picture but not this time. I just wasn't moved enough by the performances or the script. This film is a little similar to Five Feet Apart which we watched yesterday and for me, I preferred that. Its rating is 7.1 which I feel is a little low and should really be a 7.7 with this film being 7.1. Anyway, It's OK without breaking any new ground and even the twists you could see coming and I found myself predicting the script a few times it was that generic. 7.1 for me.