Review of The Age of Adaline (2015) by Bshop — 15 May 2015

A movie that is a long PSA on distracted driving and healthy eating.

Premise was good (girl stops aging, falls in/out of love, loves someone new, wants to be mortal again, girl starts aging again conveniently), but the execution was terrible.

I call this pseudo-science, because while stopping the aging process probably starts with freezing someone, jump starting back to normal temperature does not happen instantly.

I feel like Blake Lively had a part in some of the dialogue, because some of it is too outrageous to believe an actual writer wrote it - ex) "Don't eat salt/sodium more than usual daughter" and "Take this street, that street please cabbie". Ridiculous.

Harrison Ford is probably the only bright spot here, he delivers an emotional performance.

All the other characters fade in and out, depending on what attachment Blake Lively has to them.

Also, both instances of her dying/age stopping/rebirth happen due to car crashes. You would think after the first time, she would be more careful (or even after living for so long with cars) about distracted driving, but alas, afraid not. It is used here for plot points, and nothing else.

In summary, wait for rental if you must see it. Not worth the ticket price in theaters.