Review of Forever Young (1992) by Stuart M — 14 Sep 2016
Wasted potential. This film had a good concept, a good cast, and some decent ideas, but it squandered them all on a script that did nothing with them. None of the potential inherent to the time travel concept is squeezed out.
We get no fish out of water scenes (apart from a basic one with an answering machine), no exploration of cultural changes, no difficulties in expression (Mel talks like a regular '90s guy), no angst over the lost years, etc.
Worse, we get no drama out of it. Nobody's really astonished by his story, the governmental threat is astonishingly unimportant, the father/son bonding has no real payoff, the romance scenes go nowhere, and Mel's fate makes no sense.
When it does try for drama it tends to become melodrama. Like when Mel wakes Elijah in the middle of the night to tell him he should confess his feelings towards a girl he likes, and Elijah's immediately going to her house in the middle of the night and doing so.
Did the writer really believe that such behavior is realistic for either man or child?
This review of Forever Young (1992) was written by Stuart M on 14 Sep 2016.
Forever Young has generally received mixed reviews.
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