Pros:
1. Emilia Clarke (Lou Clark) gives a really warm and cheerful performance which helps to imbue the film with much needed light and brevity. Sam Claflin (Will Traynor) delivers a solidly emotive performance which is especially impressive as he could only use his face and voice.
2. The film handles the subject matter of sudden disability and all of the aftermath with tenderness and thoughtfulness.
3. The ending is surprisingly bittersweet which usurps the traditional cheesy and happy endings to romantic-dramas. It feels a lot more real and grounded than most of the others.
4. Both Sam Claflin and Emilia Clarke have amazingly subtle, but soft and intimate, chemistry together.
Cons: 1. Patrick (Matthew Lewis) only exists to create a false love triangle as he's constantly portrayed as clueless to his girlfriend's wants and needs.
2. The score is annoyingly continuous as it tries to force emotion.
3. The editing is far too overzealous at times with constant cutting which is massive eyesore.
4. Emilia Clarke's crying scene is unintentionally hilarious; it's the only bad bit of acting from her.
5. Jenna Coleman (Katrina "Treena" Clark) is wasted as she's barely in it. When she is, she lights up the scene whilst providing more depth to Lou Clark. She gets given a half-baked sub-plot about her being a single mother thus prompting her to get back into education, but all of that comes across as an excuse to get her out the picture to just focus on Lou Clark.
2. The film handles the subject matter of sudden disability and all of the aftermath with tenderness and thoughtfulness.
3. The ending is surprisingly bittersweet which usurps the traditional cheesy and happy endings to romantic-dramas. It feels a lot more real and grounded than most of the others.
4. Both Sam Claflin and Emilia Clarke have amazingly subtle, but soft and intimate, chemistry together.
Cons: 1. Patrick (Matthew Lewis) only exists to create a false love triangle as he's constantly portrayed as clueless to his girlfriend's wants and needs.
2. The score is annoyingly continuous as it tries to force emotion.
3. The editing is far too overzealous at times with constant cutting which is massive eyesore.
4. Emilia Clarke's crying scene is unintentionally hilarious; it's the only bad bit of acting from her.
5. Jenna Coleman (Katrina "Treena" Clark) is wasted as she's barely in it. When she is, she lights up the scene whilst providing more depth to Lou Clark. She gets given a half-baked sub-plot about her being a single mother thus prompting her to get back into education, but all of that comes across as an excuse to get her out the picture to just focus on Lou Clark.