No, no, no. I'm sorry guys. This film just doesn't deliver.
Yes, it got the indie music ("we feel a little sad, but we're kinda ironic about it, so it's kinda OK, even though we don't like things to be like really OK"). Yes, it got the love story - actually three of them which makes it quite surprising that none of them are rather believable (bald girl falls for ugly guy, because he wants to treat her like a princess, even though she only really seems to care about her not having any hair, the boring couple gets a good talk, even though it's obvious they're only together because they don't know what else to do - and our main person, let's call him Mr. Irritating gets the extremely hot girl, because he... Well, never really figured that part out, but I guess the director had to use her pretty face as a good end frame). Yes, it got the "just let things happen"-kinda feeling, but really the only thing people really do in this movie is NOT to let things happen. This is not indie. This is indie-wanna-be. This is "About A Boy" produced with less money and absolutely a horrible, clichéd manuscript, that only struggling actors and actresses will like (hey, it gets you on the poster, right?). I give it three stars because I actually did watch it to the end to see if anything remotely interesting happened and because of the extremely sweet Kate Mara (playing "Mississippi" - a reference with no real meaning for the film at all - don't think you'll learn these characters besides the obvious "I just want to be loved by someone"). But Kate is sweet. Very sweet - and her alone is worth two stars.
Yes, it got the indie music ("we feel a little sad, but we're kinda ironic about it, so it's kinda OK, even though we don't like things to be like really OK"). Yes, it got the love story - actually three of them which makes it quite surprising that none of them are rather believable (bald girl falls for ugly guy, because he wants to treat her like a princess, even though she only really seems to care about her not having any hair, the boring couple gets a good talk, even though it's obvious they're only together because they don't know what else to do - and our main person, let's call him Mr. Irritating gets the extremely hot girl, because he... Well, never really figured that part out, but I guess the director had to use her pretty face as a good end frame). Yes, it got the "just let things happen"-kinda feeling, but really the only thing people really do in this movie is NOT to let things happen. This is not indie. This is indie-wanna-be. This is "About A Boy" produced with less money and absolutely a horrible, clichéd manuscript, that only struggling actors and actresses will like (hey, it gets you on the poster, right?). I give it three stars because I actually did watch it to the end to see if anything remotely interesting happened and because of the extremely sweet Kate Mara (playing "Mississippi" - a reference with no real meaning for the film at all - don't think you'll learn these characters besides the obvious "I just want to be loved by someone"). But Kate is sweet. Very sweet - and her alone is worth two stars.