Review of The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) by Wesseldj — 24 Feb 2021
It started out as your typical coming of age highschool boy story, which is not necessarily a bad thing. The first quarter of the movie, despite being very much cliched, was still entertaining. I got breakfast club vibes.
But as the story progresses it just became weirder by the minute and not logically sound put together. Now I do not shy away from irregular storytelling which can be very engaging, if done well. But the placement of certain events in the story that is supposed to get you emotional, just didn't do it for me.
The choices the characters made were not logical and felt like just put there randomly to try if the audience would fall for it amidst the confusion that was displayed and be done with it. Lack of inspiration is the best thing to describe this movie, which is a shame with such a talented cast, but I didn't felt invested.
This review of The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) was written by Wesseldj on 24 Feb 2021.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower has generally received very positive reviews.
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