Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Eddie_weinbauer The acting is wooden and the actors look bored.Oh yeah.And the dad overplays so much, you start laughing.Dakota does an barley OK job here,dunno where it fails really. I juts feel she should've had more to work with.I like some of her her movies,this one wasn't really bad either,just ended feeling it lacked something.Like the best material ended up on the cutting room floor.I kind of felt it was alike a sketch of the fault is in our stars.Where as the fault is in our stars was good, and you ended up caring for the characters and what choices they took.Here you sort of end up just sitting on the sideline watching it all take place,just waiting for the end credits.Don't get me wrong.This isn't a bad movie.It just could've been so much more,if they've bothered to develop a little more of the character we see

MattyGibbs Now is Good is a British film about a girl who is dying. It's a familiar tale and a bit clichéd at times however as a drama it's pretty good. I found it quite realistic and pretty engrossing. The acting is pretty good especially Dakota Fanning who is excellent. Her character is strong willed and at times not altogether likable however isn't this the case for a lot of girls at this age. Paddy Considine does a good job as her dad struggling to cope with the imminent loss of his daughter. The storyline follows Fanning as she tries to pack in a wish list in the last months of her life. The list is predictable and a little depressing, which is a symptom of our times. The acting however does make up for any weaknesses in the plot. There are some emotional scenes that are handled well. Now is Good is an enjoyable if fairly predictable drama that for me thanks mainly to the acting just nudges an 8/10.

line-schulz I found this movie when I was waiting for "The Fault In Our Stars" to come in the cinema, and I'm really glad I did. This movie isn't "The Fault In Our Star" - just to point that out - but it is just as real, if not even more. Even though cancer is a big part of the movie, it isn't about a girl with cancer, it's about a girl who knows what she wants and wanna experience the world before it's too late. She wants to have moments she'll remember when there is nothing left to do. The leading character - Tessa - is strong and honest and real. She is well aware of what she is going through and what it will do to her, but she just wanna live as long as she can. And as you might have seen, there's a very beautiful guy on the cover of the movie. He plays a pretty big role in Tessas life and how she evolves through the movie. And yes, of course there's a love story behind all the cancer, but as a teenage girl, what is more important than love? Both Dakota Fanning and Jeremy Irvine plays their role amazingly. They moved me, they made me believe their story and I really needed a hankie multiple times during the movie. So if you liked "The Fault In Our Stars", then I'm absolutely sure that you'll like this one too.

dansview Well, I made it about half way through. The cartoon graphics of the opening are very intriguing and unique. The small seaside town is picturesque and the dad has an everyman appeal.But I think you're supposed to be rooting for our young female protagonist and I wasn't. Being ill does not give one the right to be snotty and immoral and cause others pain. She's a Godless bitch.Some girls would not look boyish, even with short hair, but Dakota Fanning does. She also looks super young. That combination makes it squeamishly awkward to think of her in a sexual context, which is what the movie constantly asks you to do.Having said that, I certainly understand that a young woman would want to fall in love and/or experience sex or lovemaking before death.I don't believe that the handsome neighbor boy would fall for her. Why would he? He could have any girl in that town.Her bucket list of crime, drugs, and sex is pretty depressing. The modern secular world has taught her that those are the cool things to experience. That's so nihilistic. Thank you modern Europe, for doing that to your kids.Yes the pointlessness of a young girl getting Leukemia is made ever so clear, but must that necessarily lead to narcissistic nihilism? On the other hand, she was quite nice to her brother, and she looked out for her slutty friend.But in addition to her meanness to her parents and her crimes, the boy next door physically torments a bald man on a bus for absolutely no reason.Well, the fact that there just happens to be a studly boy literally next door and she's never even met him before, and he just happens to fancy her, and he just happens to have a motorcycle that he can ride on the beach is really stacking the deck.I don't know what happens after I clicked out of this, but I can guess. They make love, she makes up with her dad, and she dies.The graphics, the scenery, Fanning's accent, the music, and the natural performances of the dad and brother, make this higher quality than the average teen bucket-list yarn, but it moved too slowly for me, and I didn't like the girl.