Review of Never Let Me Go (2010) by Georgette A — 12 Oct 2013
A group of boarding house schoolmates learns that they're being harvested for their organs.
If this film is a love triangle story, it fails because neither Ruth nor Kathy is particularly interesting and it's impossible to conceive why they would vie for Tommy's affection as he also has no distinct character traits. If this film is a science fiction story about a dystopian future, then it fails because the world the film creates is a blurred backdrop and nothing important is either attempted or accomplished to upset the social order; these kids merely attempt to delay the inevitable, and their reflections about life and death are the material of high school poetry. The primary problem is that the film tries to be both -- and fails.
Overall, this film tries to do too much, and such is the danger when adapting a novel in which all things can be given full play.
This review of Never Let Me Go (2010) was written by Georgette A on 12 Oct 2013.
Never Let Me Go has generally received positive reviews.
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