Review of The Longest Ride (2015) by Dawdlingpoet — 27 Nov 2021

This is a bit cheesy and sentimental but I liked the fact that it has multiple stories within stories (i.e. sub plots). At first it seems like an almost typical rom com/teenage film but I enjoyed hearing the stories from the elderly man that the main characters save from a car accident. I found it particularly nice to see how close the main characters, adolescents, became to the eldery man. It is certainly a somewhat thoughtful film, even if/though it was too sugary sweet for my personal liking - there are certainly some poignant lines of dialogue, in the script.

There are, obviously, some morals present (about love and perserverance)- as I hinted, it may feel a bit 'holier than thou' but not horrendously so and for the most part I found it an easy, light-ish watch. Not a bad film. Not brilliant, not bad.