Review of Me Before You (2016) by Groovymovie — 16 Jun 2016

This film is dreadful. I know it is not real life but the amount of inaccuracies made it unbearable to watch. The characters were all complete cliches and stereotypes. The acting of Emilia Clarke was like Rene Zellweger as Bridget jones x 1000.

So over the top klutzy and cutesie. It was ridiculous that the character is described as 'working class Cornish' but has an accent that the Queen of England would be proud of. It is also far fetched that someone working in a failing Cornish cafe on the minimum wage (and we woudl rarely tip in such a place in the UK) was supporting a family of 4 plus her sister's baby.

Her gurning and eyebrows were very distracting and I couldnt take anything she said seriously. I didnt 'buy' for one minute that Will had any romantic interest in her and it came across that she had just become a good friend.

I kept expecting something exciting to happen, but it never did and the whole film ended on a predictable whimper. In fact I have just realised that the whole film is like what Americans believe we live like in Britain, but that .

5% of the population do. It was just schmaltzy cliches from beginning to end. Why did she get teh job at the interview? She had no experience and answered the questions with stupid answers? Who on earth were the other candidates, apparently there were some.

I dread to think. I think from that moment of complete ludicrousness I guessed correctly this film would be just a crazy mess that made no sense but played a few nice, if not depressing, songs. Did it make me cry? No.