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I honestly am left amazed at this. Such a masterpiece, mind blowing performances from Justin and Kayla. This movie really is just the perfect example of reality and how crazy one person can make you feel. I personally can relate to this movie so much, it made me feel amazed how real the movie seems and how well it was executed. I would recommend this movie to anyone. At times I found it hard to follow but not to the point where I was completely lost because it all comes together well and I was left thinking 'Ohhh that's what'. Some people may find this film boring. They are the people that would rather watch cliché movies that have no sense of reality. The scenes that are quite 'dark' or 'boring' are actually the most realistic parts of the movie. I'm not too good with the review stuff, but yes 10/10 movie I could watch it over and over!!

What an Gem, perfect. There aren't many movies where it's 99%, two characters talking that holds my attention and sounds real. It's was sort of like "Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" (without the crazy) in dealing with the challenges of a modern romantic relationship. Justin Long is amazing. I don't understand why he's not a huge star. But, perhaps that's a good thing. His performance in "He's not that into you" was great he was the best thing about that movie. He may not be the typical leading man, but he has a soulful, honest quality that comes across. Emma Rossum was lovely. I've only seen her in "Shameless",which she is wonderful in. In this she hits all the right notes. It was written so well and the performances were so great. Just found it by chance on Netflix.

It's all about timing, for a great movie to be great. This film has some fantastic components in it. Every scene is fantastically crisp, with nice depth of field images with beautifully blurry backgrounds, vibrantly coloured, quirkily framed, too much so to the point of that looks nice but what's the point in relation to the story you're telling, immaculately lit, ...... willful editing quirks too, jumping through timelines it seems to just be clever, too clever for it's own good. The script, witty banter, back and forward trying hard to keep us guessing where it's going to go, to be off the wall, quirky, again, trying too hard to be clever, to the point of the script drawing attention to itself, making it obvious that these are written characters and not natural on the screen. They're kind of unlikable in their clearly contrived nature of cynical guy and quirky girl, acted well, Justin Long gives good character, he captures what was obviously on the page, but what was on the page isn't necessarily believable, engaging or appealing. Justin is good but still this fails, it just fails because it seems so text book indie cinema, written and made by a student of great cinema, looking to the great innovators of great cinema, but a well studied facsimile, a well executed pastiche, but not taking that cinema anywhere naturally new, and showing up the lack of real depth in the material and execution. Cos anyone who wants to make a text book film can hire a RED camera, and colourgrade the sh!t out of their edit in Premiere these days, and really the execution of this movie does have craft, it looks good, it really does, but when access to making movies is so accessible now the real quality in cinema is revealed, having something worthwhile to say, and that something can't just be that you love cinema and want to play, it has to be that you have something to contribute to our understanding of the human condition. I see so many movies out there failing at that simple plain objective, and they fail to connect because of that. That said there were patches of good here. The Where's my money bit worked, Dell's love soliloquy was nice enough, and it was almost going somewhere on the re writing of moments mash up dream thing, but it got confused and ended up not making it. This movie had a lot on a few levels, but it doesn't have enough.

In his directorial debut Sam Esmail shows us that he is competent enough to put together 3/4 of what look like a promising film. Unfortunately he fell victim to the now common modern trend of ambiguous endings. This does not leave the viewer interpreting the ending, it just leaves the viewer wondering what happened to the rest of the film. ( Since it's an Indie Film, one might assume budget issues are to blame?) Although the dialogue was intriguing and somewhat humorous, not enough time was spent on character development, even though the co-stars Justin Long and Emma Rossum were in almost every scene together. I might have rated this film higher if a complete film was provided.

I'm going to keep this very simple. The movie is well written and the actors are believable, a must watch for all those married couples and yet unmarried as well. The movie might be confusing but it clears up in the end. The movie has a fabulous cast and the story keeps you going till the end. Justin Long has really surprised me with this movie. He manages to show something different this time and Emmy Rossum gives you that sweet and beautiful vibe to the movie. Must admit that when the movie ends, it leaves you thinking about your life.