The idea of shining light onto CF patients is really nice; it makes them feel known, and that's really good, you know? I'm glad they showed the specific medications CFers had to go through, their daily routines and whatnot. However so, if the scriptwriter had wanted this movie to have a little comedy-it completely failed. None of Will's sarcastic remarks were funny. The beginning, too, when they first met at the NICU didn't make sense. Sex, sex, sex. Then all of a sudden the next time they meet Stella says she has control issues and wants him to do his medications? Also not at how Stella claimed to be OCD yet the actress very poorly acted out that 'part' of the character. Didn't even look like a perfectionist. If you can't even pass to play as a perfectionist, how would you pass as an OCD? Did the actress and scriptwriters get mixed up between OCD and perfectionism? Come on, man. A little research won't hurt you. There were so many plot holes, and what agitated me the most was how unrealistic their love bloomed in a span of a month. Will's last words when they parted were extremely cliche, not touching. The fact that Will was originally introduced as a 'bad boy' kind of guy and suddenly he turns into a sotie because of Stella? Isn't the naive one who has never kissed or had sex Stella, not Will? The main leads' characters I felt were not developed well. If they wanted them to be dynamic characters at least put some more effort into the acting. This was extremely cliche. I didn't even shed a tear. Not one bit. The only thing that could differentiate this movie with other sick-and-in-love teenage romance movies would be the disease the both of them were suffering from, other than that, everything's just too easy to guess. There's no excitement. They meet, somehow fall in love without a clear development, lack of detail into the building of their relationship, and of course: the two leads not ending up together. The build up of their relationship to me was mediocre. I had no attachments towards whatever it is they had or shared. And how were they never caught until Will's birthday? It's not like the hospital has a lack of staffs? Too many coincidences, it's unrealistic.
Review of Five Feet Apart
