Review of The Age of Adaline (2015) by David F — 10 Jan 2016

Lively puts on a sort of aloof, polite-speaking persona that gives her a very ageless quality, in a performance that would have been the highlight of the film if it had been written in a way so wasn't so.

. awful, to be honest. At times I really felt like the screenwriter was trying to sabotage the movie, at one point pausing and getting one of his characters to react to the huge plot contrivance that had just occured - "Wow! What a coincidence!" causing me to burst out laughing and the point of the scene to fly out the window.

Ford gets good material to work with here, and he makes the most of it in a performance that is the most compelling I've seen from him in a long time. If this project had different behind the camera talent, the fascinating idea at the center would have been much better served.