As much as I have frequently shown pessimism about the films
I review, I don’t think I’ve come across a film yet that has given me this much
reason to do so. Between the
laughably appalling tagline "Sometimes you have to say goodbye before you can
say hello", which rivals The Impossible’s "Nothing is more powerful than the
human spirit" in terms of trite advertising, the extremely by-the-numbers plot
as hinted at by the trailer and the sheer frequency at that trailer was shown,
to the point where it has been playing in front of every film I’ve gone to see in the last couple months, I find
myself largely sick of this movie before I even paid to see the thing. But,
keeping in line with the feel-good mentality that permeates these kinds of
films, I will try to keep an open mind about this… Let’s see how long that
lasts.
