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I feel the role of Maddie was perfect for Jennifer Lawrence. I have never seen her play a role more convincingly and I have to guess that that is because it was almost natural for Jennifer to play the part.

Another thing I have to appreciate about this movie is that it displays relationships and modern dating/sexual dynamics among young adults more realistically (in accordance with modern realities that is) than other comedies of a similar genre that I have seen.

There were certainly some parts that were unbelievable, as is common among comedies. (No guy's "unit" is going to fit in a Chinese finger trap for example. Also escaping a cop with a naked guy on the windshield? Yeah right. Also Percy is suddenly so comfortable and forward that he ends up, within minutes of entering the house, naked in bed with Natalie? That breaks the character of both Percy and Natalie.) But these bits usually serve to move the story in an important way, so I want to excuse them.

The last thing I will say about this movie is it will definitely offend some people, especially those who do not understand modern dating/sexual dynamics among young adults. In a way, I sort of want to recommend this movie to those people because I think it could help them understand how the "dating culture" (among young adults at least) has changed so dramatically (and especially in the last few years), but I am pretty sure they would not enjoy the movie, which, being a comedy, was sort of the most basic objective of the movie.

The movie was a bad science fiction trying to be an action movie. The concepts and physics/reality-bending rules that are established by the movie are broken all over the place. The movie makes absolutely no sense whatsoever even if you try to suspend your critical thinking. I got the strong impression that they wanted to make a movie with an original idea and they recognized that the idea of "objects" (including) people moving backwards in time would be hard for people to just accept, so instead of making it as believable as possible, by limiting the use of the concept to as little as necessary, the writers of this film did the opposite; They double-down on the false science, claiming that fiery explosions will give someone moving backwards hypothermia, and people moving backwards cannot breath normal air but can do just fine with a non-air-tight oxygen mask, for example. I can't help but think the writers and director were hoping that by making the reality-bending rules so complicated, that it would cause the audience to not question any of it. It really came off as: "this movie is too smart for you to get, so just stop trying to think about it. You are too stupid to get it." But the reality is the movie itself it just ridiculously reality and physics ignorant, desperately trying to appear smart.