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According to Wiki there have been 12 film adaptations of Edmond Rostand's play, Cyrano de Bergerac. Now make that 13 with Rhino, AKA It Takes Three-2021-revolving around modern day high schoolers which means nerdish male and female leads opposite popular boy poser and their smart but popular counterpoint. I started watching it with skepticism but stayed and enjoyed it. Some plot points seemed too contrived, the beautiful, young and way too hip Principal, as an example. Also, the two moms factor seemed a little off but better than a modern version Ozzie and Harriet. The 1987 Steve Martin version, Roxanne, remains far superior. This should make your watch list, perhaps in the lower third. However, if you keep your expectations in-bounds, you should enjoy the actors and the brave attempt to make it modern.

It's like an onion. Many layers working correctly together. The title may sound like a bad late night teen movie but quickly showed its many layers it to be much more a social commentary than a war movie. Excellent cast overall and the leads were particularly stellar. Based on real events and people, within a short real life time-frame of 1967 America and the Tet offensive, lies this very good film. Partially a heavy dose of beers and bros from Philly juxtaposed with 1960's America's unflinching coursework on a culture of war escalation like we did in 1945, says Bill Murray as The Colonel. Those sentiments juxtaposed with the Prophetic words from Viet Nam War Correspondent, Russell Crowe, "It isn't the truth that hurts us. It's the lying that hurts...". Well worth your time!

I wanted to really like this film as it seemed it would check many of my film boxes. Unfortunately, what began with some intensity in the acting and visuals soon faded. Missed the mark as a food film, a romance, a Danish film, and even as an Italian travel film. The sub-plots did not add to the story or the experience as a whole. Sometimes it was distracting enough to get a beverage, come back and not have missed anything.

The two leads were interesting actors but their characters written in two dimensions. Gaps in the story were overt and it finished as better than a Lifetime movie but not by much. After watching the entire movie, good acting and interior scenes but, not as interesting as Stanley Tucci's Searching For Italy.