After Everything

How perfect was the first half going ... but the ending brother is very weird ...

After Everything has genuine heart and strong chemistry between its leads, which makes the love story feel real and touching. The film captures the rush of young romance under difficult circumstances, and there are moments that feel honest and sweet. Still, the pacing is uneven and the character development doesn't go as deep as it could, leaving some parts feeling rushed and others dragging. It's the kind of indie drama that works best for viewers who enjoy simple, emotional storytelling, even if it doesn't always reach its full potential. For me, it lands at 6 out of 10 - moving in places, but not unforgettable.

This movie threw all the cliches about romantic comedy/drama films out the bathroom window and started working on its own path and the result was a beautifully crafted piece of art. This is how good movies are done and this (aside from the Notebook) is the only romance movie I'd gladly watch a second time!

Never heard of this movie before watching it, but when I saw Lip from Shameless in it I thought, why not give it a shot. Now, after watching it I find myself feeling pretty ambivalent to something I honestly wish I would've liked more. After Everything is a really heartfelt story of a man who learns he's got cancer, asks a woman out and then proceeds through a relationship built on the foundations of all this turmoil and the eventually aftermath of all that. As someone who's always wanted a '10 years later' look at a lot of these fairy tale, action movie, hollywood romances born out of outrageous circumstance and knowing they can't possibly work... Ariel and the Prince? Come on, there is no way they reach a ten year anniversary. She's a fish! They'll be sick of each other in a two years tops. Anyhow, my issues with movie romances aside, I love a movie that legitimately tries to explore these issues.

Problem is, this feels a little too generic, a little too unpolished and, as much as I'd love to feel different, I want the writing and the acting cranked up a level. As it stands, it just fails to make me really feel some of these big emotional moments and I feel like, in different hands, this could have been devastatingly effective. Instead, we get a movie I can say I really appreciate for now but I don't think I'm going to remember it for very long. It just doesn't do enough to separate itself from the pack and make itself remarkable.

Still, if you're looking for, honestly kind of a downer movie, this isn't an awful one. I love some of the ideas and the exploration of these relationships, it's just lacking in the script and the acting. If it's on, check it out, or stream it from somewhere but I wouldn't pay anything for this.

I REALLY liked the first half of this movie. There was a lot of potential. The movie already moved at a fast pace but I felt like the second half was way too rushed.

It could have possibly worked better if the movie were longer but it just didn't work for me.

Then we get to the ending. What even was that?!

Again, MAYBE it could have worked if the movie was longer but ultimately, I felt ripped off.