Review of Trainwreck (2015) by Nikolayg — 04 Dec 2015
This movie had many genuinely funny moments, but it was about a half hour too long - in that extra time the plot meandered and became bloated and confused; also plenty of not so funny stuff got introduced, and all of this - which is clearly the fault of one person, the editor - watered down the humor and spoiled a film that was already suffering from the fact that its protagonist is largely an unlikeable person.
Occasionally you hear someone say that having a likable protagonist is not important. They're wrong (and I suspect they are jerks who secretly identify with jerk protagonists). We care about the people we like.
If we don't like the protagonist, then we don't much care what happens to her in the movie, which basically means we don't care much about the movie. That was pretty much the case here.
This review of Trainwreck (2015) was written by Nikolayg on 04 Dec 2015.
Trainwreck has generally received positive reviews.
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